RANGITIKEI.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 8

RANGITIKEI.

MARTON, Oct. 27

Matters dealt with by the engineer (Mr S. A. R. Mair) in his report to the meeting of the Rangitikei County Council were as follow : —Porewa Riding : Portions of Bonny Glen-Norwood corner highway have been dressed with chips. Wing rails have been put on Tutaenui bridge on Jefferson Line. Upper Tutaenui roads have been repaired with maintenance metal and trimmed with the grader. The south end of Makohau Road has been widened and banked. A culvert oil Henderson’s Road has been repaired, and a corner on Onepuhi Road is being widened. Rangitoto Riding: Corners are being widened on Parewanui Road below Paulins. The deck of Bulls bridge has been repaired and shoaled beaches above the bridge have been planted with willows. Macrocarpa trees have been bedded out in the nursery for next ~ season’s planting. The metalling on Kilkern Road has been trimmed. Main highway capital works: On the Turakina-Bulls reconstruction at Glasgows the formation is now complete and the final course of metalling is being laid. Proposals have been prepared for the first and second coat surfacing on 111 miles between Turakina and Bulls. As soon as the proposals have been approved by the Main Highways Board and authority received, tenders will lie invited for the work. A test is being made with cut-back bitumen on places on Grant’s Plat and by Dalvey hill where the surfacing already laid has failed.

Feilding’s challenge to the Marton Bowlin" Club for the Harford Cup will probably be played on November 14. Mr Clem Hill, a young Marton runner who ran the first lap of the Mar-ton-Wanganui harrier race on Labour Day, collapsed on arrival at Turakina, and -was brought back to Marton by car. He was taken to hospital and operated on for appendicitis. Mr H. J. Ddshwood, clerk of the Court at Marton, is seriously ill in Wanganui Hospital following an operation for appendicitis, pneumonia having developed.