STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 June 1925, Page 9

STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

ORDINARY MEETING. At the .monthly meeting of the Stratford County Council oh (Saturday there were ' present: Cre E. Walter (chairman),. W. H. Were,. J. Jacobson, S. Pitt, S. Parker, J. O’Neill, T. R. Anderson, J. T. Reicher and M. Davis.

The engineer (Mr J. W. Spence) reported as follows: West Riding.—The fence at the .junction- of the Opunake and Cardiff roads has been set back and the formation widened, greatly improving the recently"obstructed view l . The . bank on the Opunake road near the above corner ;has also been, cut back. The formation on the Cardiff road- in front of the: hall lias been widened. General repair . work has been done on ' the Cardiff, , Waiongona, Opunake No. 2, Palmer, ,Duthie, Opunake No. 3 and Rowan 'roads.

South .‘Hiding.—The work of scarifying, rounding up and rolling the Cornwall road' has been completed. One hundred'and fifty cubic yards of crushed metal.and 19 yards of rough shingle were listed in the work. The Waihapa road between - the school -.and the -factory has- been patched -and rolled. A start has been made with the rounding up- and rolling iof s the Waihapa road .between Robson road and the old crusher >site at the .foot of the hill. Great has. been experienced in preventing, the traffic, on the Climie road from destroying the water-tables. With this end in < view- boulders have been placed along the sides of the metal, the height of the boulders not being sufficient to be dangerous, but inconvenient to the cart drivers who use the wat'dr-tables instead of having brakes (attached to ; their vehicles. Water-tabling has been done on - the Climie' and Sole road's: Metal patching on the Skinner, Robson and Win-grove-loads has also been done. Temporary repairs have been made to the bridge .on the Upper Skinner road near the foot ;of the hill. It will he necessary to -replace the old with a new structure.

Mr ,F._ D. Thomson, clerk of the Exectuive Council, advised, that by Order-in-Council the Governor-General had declared all that portion* of the Aucklarid-Wellington highway in Taranaki, commencing at the northern' boundary of the Stratford County through' Midhiret. and terminating at the southern boundary, but excluding that portion in the borough of Stratford, a .-main highway. The distance was about nine miles 20 chains.