ROTORUA ROADS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 12

ROTORUA ROADS.

TAR-SEALING DESIRED. NUISANCE FROM DUST. [BY TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.] EOTORUA, Friday. Tho Rotorua Borough Council has received a letter from Mr. C. 11. Clinkard, M.P., in connection with the tar-sealing of roads. Mr. Clinkard stated that when tho council was first formed it was unanimously agreed to construct and seal Fenton Street from tho Marine Parade to Whakarewarewa, and Tutanekai Street from tlie station to Lake House. It was agreod, said Mr. Clinkard, that as funds permitted, other streets then specified were to be sealed and a number of others metalled. Most of these works had been carried out, but there wero notable exceptions. Nothing had been done in Fenton Street below Arawa Street, and although assistance was available from tho Main Highways Board, the road to Lake House was still unsealed. As a ratepayer, Mr. Clinkard said he objected to unnecessary expenditure until ho and others had received something liko equal advantages. Mr. K. Kirk also wrote expressing surprise at'tho reply to his requests regarding tho dust nuisance in view of the fact that tho council had raised the balance of tho £IO,OOO voted by tho ratepayers for the purpose of improving tho roads in Rotorua. He called the council's attention to (ho great desirability of keeping the town clean and tidy. Mr. W. (Kalbraith said that, as a member of tho first council, ho thought Mr. Clinkard was not correct in stating that it had been decided to do tar-sealing from the Marino Parade to Whakarewarewa. As far as ho remembered it was from the Post OfTiro to Whakarewarewa. The Mayor, Mr. T. Jackson, said tho first council had spent £30,000 on road improvement work. Fenton Street had cost £12,000. and had been completed after tho £30,000 had been spent. Further loans wero raised, as the first amount had been insufficient t/> do the work. A later council had raised a loan of £10,700 for work on specified streets, and this money could not bo expended on other streets. If Mr. Clinkard had a complaint to make, it was evidently against the council over which he presided. Tho dust nuisance was being considered, and whatever work was done would have to be paid for out of revenue. It was decided to inform Mr. Clinkard of tho facts as stated.