ROADS IN TITIRANGI

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 13

ROADS IN TITIRANGI

Sir, —I fully endorse all that was said by " A Ratepayer " in the Herald of August 24, regarding the disgraceful state of Exhibition Drive and of the upland road near the filters at Titirangi. As pointed out by him, the Waitemata County Council is responsible for the serious inconvenience suffered by motorists and pedestrians alike in tnat locality. During winter the latter have to carry electric torches, or grope blindly in the dark. The road on Kaurilands Estate is dreadfully uneven. It consists of boulders and clay, with some shingle thrown on. To walk on such a road is like doing penance, and one's footwear is cut to pieces. Titirangi residents have the uneasy feeling that the amount collected in rates in that portion of Waitemata county is not spent there, or very little of it. It would be interesting to know what the amount is, and how and where it is spent. If there is not sufficient money available to repair Exhibition Drive properly, to grade and put the Kaurilands Road into decent order and to make a footpath and supply lights, then the council should apply to the Government for a subsidy out of the unemployment fund, or some other fund, to enable the work to be done by skilled labour, at standard rates of wages, under expert supervision. In any case, the matter will not be allowed to rest where it is. Another Ratepayer.