COUNTY COUNCIL AT AKAROA

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28010, 3 July 1956, Page 6

COUNTY COUNCIL AT AKAROA

IMPROVEMENT TO WAINUI ROAD

When the engineer (Mr J. W. Barnes) told an Akaroa County Council meeting that a diversion cutting to eliminate the first of the bad bends on the road running down into Wainui would cost about £lOOO, the expenditure of this amount was queried by Cr. G. E. Mulcock. He said that he did not think the council had envisaged that the diversion would go nearly a chain inside the old road.

The engineer was authorised to negotiate regarding fences and the transfer of land, and Cr. Mulcock and Cr. C D. Kay were authorised to arrange with the engineer as to how the remaining £9OO of the National Roads Board £2OOO grant for improvements to the road should be spent. Cr. Mulcock. pointing out that the council had. in its estimates, provided £2OOO for plant repairs and materials, said that already nearly that amount had been spent. “We'll just have to be careful for the rest of the year.” said the chairman <Mr H. J. Mortlock).

The engineer was instructed to test the rock on Eeach road. Akaroa. tn see if it could be blasted off to widen the road, and at the same time provide filling for a breach in the sea wall It was decided to ask the Ministry of Works to at’end to the turn-offs from the recently-sealed State highway between Duvauchelle and Akaroa.

The council decided to write to the No. 14 District Roads Council asking for ah assurance that work on the State highway, provision for which had been cut from £50.000 to £3500. would be gone on with as soon as possible. Mr Mortlock said he understood it was intended to seal the Barry’s Bay-Duvauchelle section this season.

The clerk (Mr A. G. Foreman) was instructed to proceed with the formalities to raise a loan of £14.000 to build two houses at Akaroa. and to buy the Little Akaloa Dairy Company property.