LIGHT AT LAST

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 10

LIGHT AT LAST

THE TAITA LENGTH

WHAT IS INTENDED

Every motorist who uses tho Taita road, once a day or once a week, wonders when something is to be done to put that bad length of road in order. Light was thrown on this matter at to-day's meeting of the City and Subban Highways Board by Mr. D. E. Hoggard, the represenKtive of tho Hutt County Council.

The Bailway Department, he said, did not intend to interfere in any way, in connection with the extension of tho eastern railway deviation, with the length between tho Taita Church and the Stokes Valley bridge, but that length could not be paved until the prosent roadway was widened. That work would entail considerable expenditure, which the Hutt County Council could not meet without either a contribution from the Main Highway Board or contributions from local bodies.

With respect to the length to the Silverstream railway bridge, the Hutt County Council had already decided to surface-seal the roadway. An undertaking had been given by the Bailway Department that that length would not be interfc % I with for at least two or three years, a sufficient period to justify the treatment.

From tho Silverstream bridge on to the termination of the bitumen pavement was about half a mile of unsurfaced roadway, which could not be at-

tended to this season. Mr. Hoggard suggested that this length should be given particular attention during the winter in order that the surface scaling might be commenced at once when the new season opened.