A WAY OUT OF A DIFFICULTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6966, 15 March 1884, Page 5

A WAY OUT OF A DIFFICULTY.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OW.s* CORRESPONDENT.] Gisbornk, Friday. Tiie Council of the County of Cook have decided on a so.mewhat novel course 1 of procedure in public works. They have, had a Government grant of £10,000 available; for' a lone; time to make roads with, but have- not been able to spend it, for the reason that they found it would take nearly the whol<i amount to make access to the nearest deposit of stone at Patutahi, and therefore would leave nothing for the ordinary traffic roads, that are very urgently wauted. The grrat drawback his been the. want of any accessible, deposit of stone forxoid metal. Now;' however, after very long consideration the Council have determined to try the expedient of inviting contractors and capitalists throughout the oolony to make a railway 11 miles long to the quarries under the provisions of the District Railways Act, the section to he a part of a probable eventual line to Hotorua or the nearest other railway, and the Council to guarantee the expenditure of a certain sum lor a number of years on motal to be carried by the line, and also the interest on the coßt, the Borough Council and Koad Boards also engaging for a certain amount of traffic iu hauling stone.