ROADING AT AWHITU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20638, 9 August 1930, Page 9

ROADING AT AWHITU.

MONEY FOR IMPROVEMENTS. LOAN OF £9OOO APPROVED. [BY TELEGRAM. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WAIUKU, Friday. The raising of a loan of £9OOO for road improvements in the Awhilu Peninsula, as proposed by the Franklin County Council was sanctioned to-day at a poll of ratepayers by 148 votes to 8. The number of ratepayers entitled to voto was 218, with 336 votes. With the assistance of Government grants the loan provides for thei shelling of the main Waiuku-Awhitu road from Kohekoho to Awhitu School. This will give an all-weather route from Waiuku to Awhitu., the road from Waiuku to Kerikeri being already surfaced. Many sol tiers will, benefit and it is anticipated that the work will promote closer'settlement over a large area. Provision is also made in the loan for shelling the Awhitu wharf road from its junction with Waiuku-Awhitu School road, for shelling part of Graham's Beach Road toward ihe Graham's Beach wharf, which will givo settlers in that locality better access to tlio wharf, and for forming a new road to give Orua Bay settlers better access to Orua Bay wharf. The total estimated cost of. the work is about £19.000.

The ratable capital value of the rating area for the loan is £257,673. A special rat« of 7-8 d in the pound will need to bo levied to meet the charges on the loan, which includes a sinking fund of 3 per cent, to repay the loan in 20 years.