NEW TOKAANU ROAD
REASON FOR STOPPING WORK (0.C.) TAUMARUNUI, Saturday The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, arrived in Taumarunui yesterday afternoon on the way from Rotorua and Taupo to Taranaid. He conferred with the Mayor and councillors on the question of river protective works on the Wanganui River in the borough. The Mayor referred to the stoppage of work ou the new Tokaanu road. The Minister said it was more than a question of completing the two miles of road. It meant metalling the whole road, at a cost of £40,000, but it was not the money so much as the want of labour and material that delayed the work. Steel was required for a number of bridges, one of which was 120 ft. He said the military authorities did not think the road important to them. He would submit the matter to the military authorities again and reconsider the question when he returned to Wellington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24136, 1 December 1941, Page 6
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