MONEY FOR HIGHWAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1940, Page 9

MONEY FOR HIGHWAYS.

GENERAL REDUCTION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day. An intimation from the Main Highways Board that there must be a general reduction in demands upon the funds available for construction, maintenance and replacements during the coming year was received by the No. 4 Highways Council at its annual meeting. The cash allocation for this district, it was stated, was approximately £100,000. The total value of works approved 'by the council was £130,000, this amount covering all classes of State highway and main highway work. In view of this policy the council resolved to ask the national board to keep in mind its earlier recommendation that Brunton's Road, in Waikohu County, over a distance of 60 chains be declared a main highway consequent upon the realignment of the State highway at Waikohu. The council recommended the revocation of the State highway classification of the old road between the junction with the Motu front highway and the western end of the Waikohu rajjway station yard and its reclassification as a main highway in the extension of the Motu front highway.