TENTS UNECONOMICAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20527, 10 April 1941, Page 2

TENTS UNECONOMICAL

HUTS ADVOCATED COUNTY EMPLOYEES COUNCILLOR’S VIEWS (Special to the Herald.) WAIROA, this day. “It .is not fair to my fellow ratepayers.” said Mr. W. Tait at the monthly meeting of the Wairoa County Council yesterday, when suggesting that all the council’s tents used by its employees in the county be called in and that they be replaced by huts. Mr. Tait contended that the use of tents for accommodation was uneconomical. They were, he added, suffering as a result of the wind, and the council would be well advised to replace them with huts. The chairman. Mr. A. T. Carroll, said that if the council’s policy were wrong then it would be rectified.

Mr. Tait also reported that men with barrows had been engaged on the work of clearing the Nuhaka River road, and he asked “where is the bulldozer?” It would pay the council to erect a whare and house the bull-dozer on the Nuhaka River road. The services of the bull-dozer, he considered, would be required all through the winter to keep the road cleared. Mr. S. A. Dickie replied that the council’s bull-dozer had been put to serviceable work during the month in other parts of the county.

Reference to the bad stale of the Maraenui bridge, the decking of which was rotting away, and which needed widening, was made by Mr. Tait. Ii was, he said, even dangerous to walk across the bridge. The state of the bridge was a hardship to the settlers, who were unable to get supplies of fertiliser across the bridge. He had received numerous complaints, and unless he could give the ratepayers a definite reply after the meeting then he would bid the councillors good-bye. The chairman said that he had discussed the question with the county engineer and, accompanied by Mr. Tait, they would make an inspection.