CENTENNIAL ROAD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21947, 15 February 1946, Page 4

CENTENNIAL ROAD

EXTENSION PLANS

ENGINEERING SURVEY

COOK COUNCIL'S AID

“There is no doubt that it would be a very good scheme for rehabilitation work.' but we have already compiled a list of works and submitted it to the Government, comprising work which is of importance to county ratepayers. If we recommended this work now. it might take precedence over work that is of importance to the production of the district.” said the chairman, Mr E. H. Baker, at yesterday’s meeting of the Cook County 'Council. Mr. Baker was discussing a request from tiie Thirty Thousand Club that the Council's engineer be instructed to make an engineering survey of the extension of Hie Centennial marine drive beyond the abattoirs, and also that the Council should recommend the drive as a rehabilitation project. The chairman’s remarks were supported by other members of the council who, while appreciating the value of the club’s work and the desirability of completing the Centennial Marine drive, felt that they could not recommend diversion of available labour from work of importance to the district’s production.

The council agreed, on the motion of Mr M. T. B. Hall to permit its engineering staff to make the desired survey of the extension of the drive, but expressed its inability to recommend the project as a rehabilitation measure of any urgency.

It was pointed out that there was nothing to prevent the club from making its own application to the authorities for the treatment of the project as a rehabilitation scheme.