GREAT SOUTH ROAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15132, 24 October 1912, Page 8

GREAT SOUTH ROAD.

fe ; THE IMPROVEMENT' SCHEME. .• . . .j" .:[■> V' • * '* '* • t r / ' : /' , '-■■v. The Mayor of Otahuhu (Mr. A. Sturges) ; ' . informed a HEEAiii representative yesterday that lie entirely approved of the com- ::' Inned .scheme fop 'Jig improvement o£ the r "■■■, "Great -Sooth'-. Road, from, the junction at t Newmarket to the Tamaki Bridge, Ota-; ' Jmhu, and he had no doubt whatever that ; "if-the' local bodies who have jurisdiction • the toad were to combine in this work '.•> • i a schepio in every way. satisfactory, could :ii: . he 'carried' out; [-'At-present." remarked ; »tho^Mayor,' ;< '^re'are all wasting- money on • the toad." - "• \ Mr. S. J. Hnrbutt,' when .chairman of the *; V 'lato : Otahrihij Bead Board, advocated the -.co-operation' of the interested local authorities in carrying out a scheme for the per- ■ manent improvement of the road, believing that it would be found Jess expensive than the i»resent system,; and would add very much to this . prosperity ,of „ the, jdis,- : tricV. Mr.' HartutV thinks ' that £30,000, the sum which has been mentioned as the -' probable cost of a. permanent and satjii-. - factory improvement scheme for the seven and a-half miles of road, is rather a low : estimate, but even'were the cost consider- :! - : ably above the sum he believes the money ;- • .would be very profitably expended. • ' • The proposed improvement scheme will 'f-' - -come, up for consideration at an early meeting'of the Olahuhu Boiough Council.