FIFTY YEARS AGO
THE GREAT SOUTH ROAD Protests regarding the inability of road boards to maintain the rea South Road, "tho only arterial road from Auckland to the southern portions of tho provincial district, ana an agitation that the rcsponsi n.v should be accepted by the Governmen . were voiced at a meeting of 24 c air men and members of road boards, e at Otahuhu and reported in the x E Zkaland Herald 50 years ago to-day, on August 5, ISS6. The road boards represented were Otahuhu, Mount e ington. Papatoetoe, Mangere.Manurewa, East Tamaki, One Tree Hill and Rcnutera. ■ Tho chairman, Mr. J. M. Ten (Remuera), said the road was in shocking and dangerous state, lbe pr - position that boards should keep it ' order was utterly preposterous, as was impossible for them, out o rates, to undertake such a respon-i bility. They had met to force on t«w Government the importance of 1 s pi ting the road in order before asking the boards to take over the n | a | nance. Several motions of protest carried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22489, 5 August 1936, Page 10
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