BETTER ROADS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18968, 5 April 1927, Page 8

BETTER ROADS.

ASHLEY-SELWYN SCHBa|l APPROVAL EXPECTED, jl ' fy, '-3 That there ip little doubt thai ia *B, near future a permanent road laid down between the Ashley and Ufa/' wyn rivers in accordance with 'tS scheme promulgated by Mr 6. inness, clerk to the Paparua Council, was the opinion expressed tft last night's meeting of the CounoilVihe Canterbury Automobile Agsomtwr by the acting-chairman (Mr P. Freeman), who stated' that all* to county councils concerned were in our of it except Springs, which waste' favour of a gravel system on a £3 fJJ £1 maintenance basis. „^ He added that as a result of the deputation which had waited on the Mm/ lster for Public Works (the Hon. 1&* Williams) last week, it seemed thlt 5 thero was little doubt that there \jobH shortly be a stretchy of good highwni' extending sixteen miles on each sidtfw the City, constructed on the £3 to «! basis, which seemed to be the sotolM* of the trouble which had been holdbjh up road development in the s&s, Island. $ A motion moved by Mr H. E. X«s;\ nett, and seconded by Mr 6. S. Morrltf f was carried, trusting that the Mjja'l Highways Board would grant the tjfi for £1 subsidy asked for by the depn|£i tion and so enable a permanent mri& way to be put down between the ASfcf ley in the north and 4he Selwyn in ttflj" south. I