PAEKAKARIKI HILL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 111, 4 February 1941, Page 10

PAEKAKARIKI HILL

Automobile Association’s Work

“This association is entirely responsible for this arrangement being brought about,” said Mr. E. A. Bartt, chairman of the Automobile Association (Wellington) in reporting to a meeting of the association’s executive last night on the events leading up to the decision of the Main Highways Board to reconstitute the Paekakariki Hill Road a 1 highway. Mr. Batt recalled that after the Slain Highways Board had decided to cease maintaining the road as a highway the association called a meeting of local bodies in the district. Representatives of the bodies expressed their opinions on the closing of the road and another conference was to have been called, but in conversations between the chairman of the Main Highways Board, Mr. J. Wood, the secretary of the association, Mr. W. F. Sutherland, and himself finality was reached without another conference. The road was to be a fifth standard road and the Hutt County Council was to receive a subsidy of £3 for each £1 it .spent on the road. The road was now in perfect order. On the motion of Mr. W. H. Shortt tl .j executive resolved to place on record appreciation of the services the chairman had given, not only to the association but also to Wellington as a whole in obtaining a satisfactory solution of the problem.