HAWERA COUNTY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 May 1928, Page 5

HAWERA COUNTY

CHAIRMAN’S REVIEW OF THE YEAR. “As this is the last meeting of the present council before the annual statutory meeting,” said the chairman of the Hawera County Council on Saturday. “I would like to thank members of the council for their work and to say that I feel we have got on remarkably well together in the carrying on of the work of the council.” He therefore recorded his thanks to his fellow members, and to the clerk and engineer and their staffs. He added, in reference to the work done during the a ear, asi recorded by the engineer (Mr.'A. Muggeridge), that their machinery had been very fudy occupied, and heavy amounts of material moved over many miles, which made the work very heavy. Six miles forty-two chains if new metalled roads had been made, and one mile six chains of gravel road pit metal). In all, he added, 123,903 gallons of material had been .put on thirty-seven miles of road, while 15,000 yards of metal, shingle, etc., had been carted out during the year. The return showed in all nearly ten miles oi aew roads. It was, he added, a record or the council during any one year since its formation, and proved the great amount of work needed andaetuilly done in the county. In addition to the cost of the materials, there had to be added the wages paid and the >enzine used in carrying the loads. They were actually effecting a saving »f thirty per cent, on work now done. For the coming year, continued the ■hairman, it would be necessary at iext meeting to strike the rates for the rear. Tiie council had to cater for an ever-growing and fast-travelling motor traffic, and they must have a'.l roads covered with bitumen. In some districts of the Dominion . where metal vas cheap they might continue renewing the roads, but in / a district like 3-outh Taranaki tarred roads were essential. In conclusion he congratulated the engineer and staff on the way they iacl carried out the work of reading during the year.