WORKS IN OTUMOETAI DISTRICT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14710, 30 June 1948, Page 3

WORKS IN OTUMOETAI DISTRICT

I PRIORITY LIST SUBMITTED

impleticn Of Beach Road Advocated

iprovements To Wilson’s Corner

ip list of works in the Otumcotai Viet which it was considered kid be given priority, was sublimed to the Tauranga County fUacil, at its monthly meeting, by ; Otumoetai District Ratepayers’ kiation. iilhe first item —the Beach Road—aid, the association stated, be put llward as a major work and the gaining items as works of lesser fenitude. pjlhe list of works submitted was p : follows: —The completion of the l|lich Road on the original align- • pt along the sea front; improveof the railway overbridge; improvement of visibility at Lever’s ipd corner; improvement of ||i!jon’s corner; improvement of Mby’s corner; and improvement of ipnment of Hinev/a Road. f|jFne Otumoetai School Committee ncte informing the council that as =: pi Monday last the school bus ||i going to pick up children from Mud's corner. The committee confeed that the portion of the road liwn as Wilson’s corner was f||3nitely unsafe for the bus and a |;bto pass safelv and requested the wncil, if possible, to widen the fed or else to widen portions of the ' [|d to allow passing places. jibe view that something should |; done to Y/ilson’s corner, was |j||iced by Cr W. I. Rushton. He llnted out that the corner was Infinitely dangerous. Ijlbe county engineer (Mr N. G. fppsen) reported that there was no rpiey available for construction 1 ffk in the Waimapu riding other IN budgeted for. "We in Otumoetai feel that with H* rates v/e pay we are entitled 1o ■; pc little consideration, stated Cr |piton who pointed out that in Lpmoetai 10 miles of road profed £6,000 in rates ||‘be chairman. Mr W. Hudson lijfen reminded Cr Rushton that on W Upper Papamoa Road children IP to walk to school along a oneSjjroad through a tunnel of ferns, jiine council agreed that the |pineer and Cr Rushton should ||pect _ Wilson’s corner and the fjciabcn’s list of priority works ||P place on record for future referic* w hcn works were being con#red.