HIGHWAYS BOARD ACTIVE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 8

HIGHWAYS BOARD ACTIVE

WORK ON MAIN EAST ROAD On Tuesday last at the Hutt County Council’s meeting severe criticism was levelled at the City and Suburban Highways Board regarding the condition of those portions of the Main East road under its control. The remarks reported in Wednesday’s issue of The Dominion appear to have borne fruit, as on the following, day the board’s workmen were to be seen patching the road north of the Lower Hutt Borough boundary. In November last the Main Highways Board circularised local authorities suggesting that they should erect notice boards indicating county boundaries. This policy was adopted by the board, which has put up signs on the Auckland-Wellington, via Taranaki highway, marking the portions. of road controlled by that authority. The Hutt County Council, together with other local bodies, agreed to do likewise within the county boundaries, which will have the effect of informing the travelling public as to the particular authority responsible for the section of road over which they happen to be travelling, and to whom may be attributed any blame for indifferent maintenance or the kudos given for a good road.

In this connection the Hutt County Council has felt that it has been called upon to shoulder the responsibility of the condition of the whole of the main east road, whereas it controls only those portions of the thoroughfare between the Taita Church and the Silverstream railway bridge, and from the Upper Hutt Borough boundary to the Akatarawa road turn-off

There will, however, be no occasion for confusion in the future, as Mr. A. H Benham, engineer to the Hutt County Council, has had sign boards made which will indicate the various divisions of road and the controlling authority. These notice boards are to be erected to-dav, and each end of the sections of road mentioned.