KAIRANGA ROADS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1438, 11 December 1919, Page 5

KAIRANGA ROADS.

TO-DAY’S POLL. lii connection with to-day’s poll for road-improvement loans in the Kairanga County a meeting was held in the Longburn Hall last evening. There was a good attendance, to which Mr J. Linklatcr, chairman of the County Council, and Mr A. H. M. Wright, county engineer, spoke on similar limes to their addresses at previous meetings. Mr Wright’s speech included a reply to recent newspaper correspondence advocating concrete roads instead of the system to be adopted. He considered that though concrete coated with tar would make an ideal county road, its cost for their main roads alone would be prohibitive. A cheaper class, moreover, would not economise, as the cost of repairs to the Rangitikei Line experimental block had fully shown. The expense involved by a concrete system was shown by Auckland prices for 20ft. roads—£s2Bo per mile with cement at 2/9 per bag, and £6515 per mile with cement at 7/, tho present local price per bag, whereas the estimate for the proposed construction amounted to only £1760 per mile. Councillors Collis and Small also spoke supporting the proposal.