TE KUITI-AWAKINO ROAD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 344, 11 March 1911, Page 5

TE KUITI-AWAKINO ROAD.

WORK TO STOP. We are informed on good authority that the work on the Awakino road will come to a standstill immediately. The balance of the road vote is new practically expended, and unless some further authorisation is made the metalling will be hung up for another year. It is good weather still and we have had barely a mile of road metalled this year. What arc these road votes for, if big figures are quoted and intended to mean nothing. According to the Public Works Statement £4OOO was required to be voted, and this amount was voted. It was subject to a liability of £958 already expended, and we should have had the balance of £3OOO odd for use in connection with the road. How it comes that such a sum is now exhausted is a puzzle beyond us. A strong agitation is needed to carry this vital work on. At any cost the Public Works Department must be made to see that an important arterial road like this must not be hung up from year to year in the fashion proposed. An enormous and expanding settled country is dependent upon that single main road for transit facilities. It is imperative that the work should continue while fine weather lasts and some further substantial progress be made in completing the metalling. There is no time to be lost, and immediate steps should be taken to bring the matter under the notice of the Public Works Department.

Just before going to press we have received the following telegram from our special correspondent in Wellington: —"A further grant for the extension of metalling on Te KuitiAvvakino road has been granted." This news will be received with pleasure by the settlers making use of that imDortant road.