COUNTY MAINTENANCE

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1313, 26 January 1928, Page 6

COUNTY MAINTENANCE

IN THE KIWITEA A MONTH’S PKOGUAMME Overseers E. H. Jiggers and C. Stout submitted at yesterday's meeting of the Kinitea County Council the following icport on work done in tlie Southern and Northern i filings - respectively: SOUTHEUN HIDINGS Cheltenham riding. Himbolto". load, a section of the Cheltenham cross roads, McKay's line, and Beaconsfield Valley road have been trimmed with the grader. The metalling of the new earth work on the Cheltenham cross road has been completed. The contractor has made fair progress with the work ot regrading the cutting on the Beaeonsfiekl road, and it should be completed in about a month's time.,. The permanent roadman has attended to surface work and the cleaning out ot water tables on Barrow’s and Rayne's lines, Jviwitea riding.—l intend making a start carting maintenance metal on jho JximboltoiL road from Beard's pit 'during the coining week. This section of the main highway has also received attention with the grader. Waituna riding—Hew a Hill and the southern section ol the Kangitilcei Valley road have been trimmed with the grader and the usual past month, and the Parorangi road is now in a very, much improved condition. The cost of maintenance in this riding should be very small lor the balance of the current year. 1 intend to have .the drain on \\ ilsonV line cleaned out and the grass cut in the Waituna. cemetery during the current month. Kimbolton riding -A section of tlm Otamakapua road lias been dronsco withr the grader and the usual maintenance work throughout th« ridl l ir has received attention. 'The contractor has made very littm progress with tlie kerbing and channelling work in the main street. Kiniboltou. Peop-o’-Day riding.—The usual maintenance work to all roads nas received attention throughout the riding, and a section of the .KiwiteuTapuao road to the junction with tlm Pcep-o-Day load has been inipro l 'od

with the power grader. A 1 refcb start lias been made with removing the largo land slide on the Mangapapa road. .Tjii.s is quite a big undertaking, but 1 hope to have sufficient spoil removed by the end ui next week so as to allow traffic to get through. The recent break way on tlie main highway near Peop-o’-Day has been repaired so as to allow traffic to get through with safety. 1 should like to mention that the travelling public are indebted to Mr ¥. P. Myers for erecting and maintaining lights on this breakway until the road was mad** passable to vehicular trallic. NO it the BN .111 P.J NG s Piangiwahia riding. —i be main south road was blocked with slips on McKean’s hill, in the Mangoiim Gorge. Two slips came down on th*> Pukirimu hill, and these have been attended to. The heavy rain has washed the fine meal and grit oh all the roads' in northern ridings, and row on account ol the him weather mid travelling stuck th» roads are in a very rough -state. J would ■ advise a sweep with lh<? grader on luosL of tlie roads at an . early date.. Huutapu riding.- Owing to the heavy rain in the early part ol this month almost every road m this riding was blocked will slips, and it was necessary to put a number o. casual men on to keep the roads open. His work for the past month has been confined to clearing away the damage done by tlie storm. Paliihikura riding.—A storm passed over part of this riding on December 23 and did a considerable amount of damage to McGregor a road. The culverts on the lower* end ■wore not large enough to take th» wafer and the -overflow ran down, the middle of tin- road for about 12 chains and washed a. channel about oft wide. Temporary repairs have lieeu effected for the present. Hm same thing has* occurred on tim Mangarere road, caused by the drain through Anderson's property not being able to take the extra, storm water.