WORK AHEAD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20254, 23 May 1940, Page 13

WORK AHEAD

WAIROA COUNTY COUNCIL WIDE PROGRAMME EFFECT OF THE WAR (Special to the Herald.) WAIROA. this day. “The council has a comprehensive programme of works ahead for the current year, stated the chairman of the Wairoa County Council, Cr. A. T. Carroll, in his report on the year's working presented at the annual meeting of the council yesterday. The projected works include the formation of the new Whakamahi road to replace the old road rendered useless by the Wairoa River changing its course at the mouth; a big deviation in the Kopuawhara-Mahia road, which lias become necessary owing to the continuous flooding in winter of a length of the present read along the Kopuawhara Stream; the construction of an access road on flic Mania Peninsula; the sealing of a length of the Wairoa-Nuhaka section of the Gis-borne-Wairoa, vid Morere, main highway; the erection of a new bridge over the Mohaka River at the Mohaka township, as well as a considerable length of new metalling under the loan programme. The rate of progress, added the report, would depend in most cases on the extent to which materials and supplies could be obtained. Conditions arising out of the war were bound to considerably retard progress but every effort would be made to complete the Whakamallia road and the Kopuawhara-Mahia deviation, and also the sealing of the Wairoa-Nuhaka road section before the end of the year. With all the above works in hand, portion of the cost of which must come out of the general account, the expenditure out of revenue would show a marked increase on the previous year and for which provision would require to be made in the estimates.