HOBSON COUNTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 247, 19 October 1933, Page 11

HOBSON COUNTY.

IMPORTANT ROAD PROJECTS. RAISING ABOVE FLOOD LEVEL. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DARGAVILLE, this day. Tho Hobson County Council, at a meeting over winch the chairman, Mr. V. Troiuison, presided, accepted the tender of M. Blackovich at £150 for raising a section of 70 chains of the DargavuleKaihu main highway, near the flaxmill, above flood level. This section is notorious for holding up traffic, following heavy rains when Awakino Creek overflows. The council agreed to contribute £300 towards the cost of reforming and metalling what is known ; s a short cut road to Kaihu through Babylon, a clay section of about five miles, at an estimated, cost of £1650, the Public Works Department having notified the council that the work was being proceeded with immediately. The Main Highways Board advised the council that it was allocating £50 as its share of the cost of raising a section of the Dargaville-Whangarei main highway at Taylor's Flat, near Tangiteroria, two of the"worst dips to be raised above flood level. The council agreed to contribute £200 towards the cost of completing the formation and metalling of the road between Pukehuia and Dargaville, a fourmile gap which will give Pukehuia settlers an all-weather road into Dargaville, some, seven miles shorter than the existing route, passing through some splendid country lying between Arapobue and Mangarata and the valley of the Mangonui River, which at present are lave holdings but which are suitable for subdivision. The Public Works Department is being asked to include tins amon°- works requiring urgent attention.