Dannevirke County Council

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 2

Dannevirke County Council

The engineer’s report read as follows: —

.Dannevirke riding: Tho concrete gang have completed the concrete culvert on Kaukuhu road, To Eohunga, at a' cost of £lOl Ss, and aro making good progress with tho small brulg« over Black creek, Eau Eoa road. Th<» grader has raked in metal on the fok lowing roads: Adelaide, Armstrong’s, Umutaoroa, Smith’s, Eokai, EokaiWhana, Otaria, Tamaki river, To Ivakapo Valley and back streets. Ike/ lorries have delivered 62 yards maintenance metal, on Freeland’s road, 44 yards on Eua Eoa road; 44 yards on Kumeti road, 10 yards on Kaukuhu road 22 yards on Umutaoroa road, 4U yards on Glengarry road, and 16 yJ'Cis on Tamaki east road. The roadman has attended to surface works on I reeland’s, Eua Eoa, Kumeti, Umutaoroa, Armstrong’s, Eokai Whana, Tamaki cast and west, Smith’s roads, and back streets. , , Mangatoro riding: The roadmen in this riding have been all tho month spreading metal on highways. The grader has raked in metal on Otope Tiratu riding: The grader has Takcd in metal on Cowper’s, Railway, Knight’s, Tiratu and Mauuga roads. The lorries have delivered 70 yards of maintenance metal on Tiratu road and six yards on Maunga road. The roadman has attended to surface work on Maunga, Otonga, Tiratu, and Wright s roads. * . , Ngapacruru riding: The lorries have delivered 36 cubic yards of metal on Pokokomuka road. G.-Donghi is making slow progress with his metal contract on main Mangapualpi road. Blair and Son have completed contract No. 30, and are making good progress with contract No. 34, Upper Mangahe road. The roadmen in this riding have been attending to raking in metal and cleaning watertablcs on Mangahe, Pokokomuka, Tutarewa, Cross Te Un and Johnston’s roans. Ormondville riding: A. Beatty is making good progress with his metal contract on Donghi’s road. The grader has raked in metal on Newling’s road, Church street, and Makotuku-Garlield, road. The lorries have delivered 28. yards maintenance metal on main Waikopiro road, 22 yards on Ahiweka road, and 18 yards on Church street, Mako-j tuku. The roadman has attended tej surface work on Paerora, Maunga, weka and main Waikopiro roads. Norsewood riding: P. E. Nikolaison is making good progress with his metal contract on Jens Andersen’s road. The lorries have delivered 8S yards maintenance metal on Norsewood-Makotuku road and 16 yards on Makeretu river road. The grader has raked in metal on Jens Andersen’s, NoTsewood-Mako-tuku, Makaretu river and Garfield roads. C. Mudgway has made a start with his metal contract on Pedersen’s road. Matamau riding: Have had approaches filled in to Takawaitane bridge, also made a start with the sealing work on Tataramoa road. O. Ckristophersen has made a start metalling Te Ohu road. The grader has raked in metal on Centre, Toror.ua, Kotare, and Te Ohu roads. The roadman has cleaned watertables on France’s and Blairgowrie roads. Highways. Napier-Wellington highway: _ The grader has been nine days raking in metal and tracing up road. The lorries have delivered 18 cubic yards maintenance metal. The permanent roadman has been attending to pot-holes and surface work. • • • Dannevirke-Weber highway: The lorries have delivered 23S cubic yards maintenance metal. W. Hargreaves is making good progress his meta.l contract on far end of this road, .having delivered 2474 yards. J. Kilkolly has completed the approaches to Mangatcra stream bridge.- Have had a nght-ol-way made to Mrs. Jensen’s property, also made to Mr. Urquhart’s property. This work had to be done, having been caused through the new alignment oi the bridge, thus cutting away thenold right-of-ways. The bridge over, the Pene Penc creek, near the three-mile peg, requires • re-decking, at an estimated cost of £B2. The approaches to the Mangatera bridge require fencing. Whetukura highway: The grader has ben four days raking in metal and the lorries have delivered 86 cubic yards maintenance metal. The roadman has attended to surface work where necesSd Matamau-Makotuku highway: The widening of the sharp corner at wliat is known ns Hill is now conipleted, with the exception of the motalling. The bridge over tho Manga-tewai-nui stream requires re-decking, at an estimated cost of £IOB. The grader has been two days raging in metal. Have also had drains cleaned out m swamp between C. Baines’ house and G. Wright’s road. The lorries have delivered 52 cubic yards maintenance metal. ~ , Ongaha-Mangatoro Valley highway: D. Frederickson. has completed his metal contract. The roadman on this highway has been attending to potholes and surface work when not engaged spreading metal. Woodville-Tamaki highway: The roadman has been raking in metal and filling pot-holes where required.

Unemployed Labour.

During the month I have found work for over 50 unemployed men. This work has entailed considerable extra work in the office, besides the engineering part, laying out work. And we have to pay these workmen every Friday, which means practically the whole of Thursday and Friday is devoted to the unemployed work, so that we have been unable to keep up with our ordinary work. Our gang of the unemployed is on Maunga road, across the Manawatu river, going from Eaumati, and have practically made a new road for over £0 chains, at a cost of £lO5. A second gang is widening the road on the hill at what is known as the deviation near the four-mile peg, Weber road, at a cost of £6O 18s. A third gang is widening portion of Te White road, from its junction with NorsewoodOrniondville road and Arthur's road, at a cost of £4B 6s. The fourth gang is widening corners on main Waikopiro road, near Walter Williams' at a cost of £25 4s. The fiftli gang is widening a portion of Matamau-Makotuku road, at a cost of £46 18s. This makes a total expenditure .up to March 28 of £286 6s. Besides the widening of what is known as Holden's Hill, MatamauMakotuku road, which work was done with unemployed labour, but paid for on the £2 for £1 basis. The show the amount of work we are now handling, I may state that at present we have 118 men working in the county, made up as follows:- —Permanent hands, 23; casual, 13; unemployed labour, 50; contractors, 9; plus 23 men working for the contractors. As this county >:s had the sole use of my vacant section in Thyra street for the last 20 years free of cost for the storage of pipes, timber, machinery, etc., when required, I think now that pry has been reduced 20. pgr

cent, it is only right that the county should pay a rent for this section in the future. On the motion of the chairman, seconded by Or. Castles, it was decided to fence deviation on a hill on the Dannevirke-Weber road. It was decided to renew the decking on the Pene Pene bridge, also to fence the approaches on tho Mangatera bridge. On tho motion of Cr. Castles, seconded by Cr. Hansen, it was decided to renew the decking on the Mangatewaiaui bridge. The report was then adopted. Cr. Hansen said he thought great credit was due to the engineer for the excellent manner in which the considerable amount of work had been car-j ried out under tho unemployment scheme. This had jpeant a good deal of extra work to tho staff and he moved that a vote of appreciation be accorded the staff. This was seconded by Cr. Castles and carried. It was decided on the motion, of Cr. Hansen, seconded by Cr. Frederickeon, to impose the 10 per cent, penalty 03j and after May 22.