USUAL COUNTY WORK IN WAIKOHU RIDINGS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22819, 14 December 1948, Page 3

USUAL COUNTY WORK IN WAIKOHU RIDINGS

General maintenance work was carried out in all ridings of the Waikohu County during the past month, according to the engineer’s report, which was tabled at yesterday’s meeting of the council.

In the Motu riding maintenance metalling had been completed on the Te Wera highway, sufficient metal having been dumped to carry over for two years without having to install the crusher plant. The opportunity had been taken while a dozer was in the locality to dig out two culverts on the Poututu highway in the Waihuka riding. These places had been filled in and metalled. In the Mangatu riding the bulk of the slips on the Mangahaumia road had been removed and the road put in to the junction at Okaihau by the dozer, several culverts having being repaired. On the Whatatutu highway in the Waipaoa riding a start had been made on filling in the washout beyond Mangakino, but rain had interrupted the work.

There had been general maintenance on roads in the Ngatapa riding and in the Kanakanaia area the subsidence near Anderson’s at Kanakanaia Upper had been regraded and metalled. Work was in progress on Lavenham road, Karaka riding, but unfortunately wet weather had held the work up, causing some inconvenience in getting the cream out.

Yesterday's meeting was the annual one and Mr. A. A. Fraser took the chair with Messrs. A. C. Bellerby, TI. C. Boys and G. S. Bridge present. Messrs. Brown, Fitzgerald and Tombleson were granted leave of absence. In reply to a letter from the resident engineer of the Department of Works, who wrote drawing attention to the need for repairs to stock yards on some of the highways in the East Coast district, the meeting considered that the only paddock requiring attention was the one at Puha. An endeavour would be made to find a more suitable site when the location of the State highway was settled.

The chairman was appointed deputy nominee to the Gisborne-East Coast Regional Planning Council in answer to a request from that body asking for a deputy for any meeting which the nominee was unable to attend.

Accounts totalling £4GG2 were passed for payment.

Mr. J. 11. Tomblcson was re-appointed dog-tax collector and noxious weeds inspector for the ensuing year.