RUAHINE STREET

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 11

RUAHINE STREET

INQUIRY NEEDED

A WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY

The executive of the Hataitai Municipal Electors' Association does not spare any.words over Ruahine Street in its annual report. That work, it states, was a waste of public money.

"The association joined with other bodies in endeavouring to prevent the wasteful expenditure of public money in extending Ruahine Street through to Wellington Road and strongly supported the project of a diagonal route from Ruahine Street to Wellington and Evans Bay Roads intersection," says the committee. "A conference was arranged between the^ council arid the Automobile Association to consider the whole question of traffic diversion along such a route, but our association was not invited to attend, and our recommendations, it seems, were ignored. "The present half-finished and unkempt state of Ruahine Street and the council's - refusal even to provide in the estimates for covering in an open drain along this street, that is a menape to the health of residents and a danger to traffic, are matters requiring public inquiry, as also is the manner in which the resolution was come to to expend so large a sum of money on a project to which almost everyone concerned seemed to be opposed. The whole question of traffic dangers at the Taurimu Street, intersection has been under examination, and co-operation was sought with the Wellington Automobile Association in some effort to secure a solution to the difficulty here."