WHIROKINO HIGHWAY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 6

WHIROKINO HIGHWAY

Attitude of Council Palmerston North, September 14. The view that the Whirokino Highway was a national highway, and that the county could not have anything to do with the costly proposals for reconstructing the road to remove it from the menace of the flooding of the Manawatu River, was the attitude adopted by the Mannwatu County Council at its meeting yesterday. This brought to a head a continuous agitation from Foxton interests that something should be done to Improve this section of the Wellington-Auckland Main Highway, which is subject to periodical flooding, and the resultant diversion of through traffic via Shannon. A fairly lengthy discussion was brought to a conclusion by tho chairman (Councillor W. E. Barber), who remarked; “The road has been going for 40 or 50 years, during which time we have greatly improved it by providing more outlets for the flood waters, and we. as a council, are not going to have anything to do with the proposals for removing it from the menace of floods. We have other fish to fry. It is a national highway, and we are not going to have anything to do with it.”