Paparoa Progresses Under Public Works Plan

Northern Advocate, 11 May 1939, Page 3

Paparoa Progresses Under Public Works Plan

[Special to “Northern Advocate ”] PAPAROA. This Day. Considerable Public Works activity is still in progress in the Paparoa district and the appearance of the township has changed considerably during the past few months. The new concrete bridge below the Otamatea County Chambers has been completed with the exception of the facing with stone of the lower emembankment. Cne side of the embankment has been faced and the completed work is a credit to the local staff of the Department and is the subject of admiring comment by local residents.

The State highway through the village has been widened, old culverts have been replaced and all the dangerous bends eliminated. What was once the most dangerous section of the Auckland-Dargrville . main highway will within a few weeks be made as safe as modern reading methods will allow. It is understood that the tar-sealing of this section will be undertaken in the spring. Portions of the road between Paparoa and Maungaturoto have been resurveyed with a view to the reconstruction of portions of this highway. In several places, notably the series of bad bends known as Ai'iell’s Hill, a new road has been surveyed with the intention of eliminating the bends within the near future.

At Waipu the sealing operations being carried out have x'eached the Waipu end of the Gorge and from that point to Waipu, a distance of 4.1 miles, the road has now a dust-proof surface.