MAIN ROADS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 August 1921, Page 5

MAIN ROADS

GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS

'-'i. jjciuuii, ai; x,ue jraiea U/Oum;y Council yesterday, drew attention to the Government's arterial road proposals. He understood that th? Taranaki local bodies were calling a conference to consider them, and if they invited members from the Patea County Councif he thought they should attend. In the meantime he thought the v should -set up a committee to go into their own position. Mr. McLauchlan, county engineer, remarked that the commission appointed py the Government was collecting an immense amount" of information regarding county roads, plant, metal supplies, stc. -Mr. Murray inspected their tarred roads, and, in the course of a conversation, mentioned he was asked where the Patea County would stand in regard to their tar work. He said they could iot do anything where such work had jeen 4one out of revenue, buf he .nought the Government proposed to a ,over local body loans where they lad been raised and expended on tarred nam roads. It was pointed out to him ;hat the Patea County had spent upwards of £20,000 in metalling and taring their portion of the main road, md, although no special loan had been •aised for this, it was virtually borrowed noney from the bank. Mr. Murray idmitted the equity of this argument. Vr. J3elton added that'it was possible ihe county ma v have to make repre- I mentations on the floor of the House:' it all events they must enforce the ius- ; iice.of their-case to the very end- -,t = vas a matter of great importance to ;ne county. , i The^chakman said that the "informa- j -ion they had was too meagre to form ' Iffif fr?% and they must have j nuch fuller information before they :ould properly consider it. The Govern- ; nent was app ai rentl v collecting a great! S. £ than they \ ™S *°.%est l and they would , )robably die of indigestion before these ' >roposals became law.- .However if a : inference w,as called of Sanaki' S^ would like to see as many : iouncillora as possible attend 7|