MEADS ROAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 35, 12 July 1939, Page 4

MEADS ROAD

X : -O-i— - WIDENING BY SIX FEET AGREEMENT WITH MAORIS "This afternoon Cr Sullivan and I met the Maoris at The Heads, regarding the widening of The Heads access road. We wasted a considerable mount of time, but eventually goi: the Maoris to agree to the borough widening the road by six feet, upoft the express understanding that we will not ask for another six ' feet. - again. This will give us a 20ft carriage way, said the Mayor; Mr B. *7. Barry ? at Monday night's meeting of the Whakatajie Borough Council. ''Mr Henderson will use the spoil from the side of the road for the Centennial Park,'' added Mr Barry. "We. miist not touch, on the cave of Muriwa.i or cut through the foot of the cliH. They had been instructed by Sir A. Ngata that no one was touch it. We wanted to cut off the toe, but they said that we not to. They say the cave runs in much further than w.e think. * In reply to a question Mr Barry that the Maoris claimed there 1 had been some undertak'ng by the county council at the time the road was formed that no more land would be taken. The Maoris at "first said that if they wanted to widen the road the borough could make it up on the seawards side. On the motion of Crs Armstrong and Canning the action was approved. PRODUCTION DECLINES The Bay of Plenty Go-operative •Dairy Limited, Te Puke 1 , reports that for the 1938i39 feasoa the ; company manufacture ! 2447 lons, in comparison with 2900 tons for the 1937-38 season, a decline of 453 tons, or 15.60 per cent. The main reason for such a large decrease is put down to the exceptionally dry spring and summer following an, extremely wet winter.