PAHIATUA COUNTY ROADS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5350, 5 February 1916, Page 4

PAHIATUA COUNTY ROADS.

MODERN PLANT NECESSARY.

A VISIT TO GISBORNE.

“We find _ that with the advent of motor traffic in our district it is absolutely impossible to keep the roads in order without a plant,” stated Mr T. Hodgins, Chairman of the Pahiatua County Council, to a Gisborne -Herald” reporter. Mr Hodgins, aocommpamed by Messrs H. Cornelius (ex-chairman)/ R. J. Dillon (engineer) and H. Garbutt, representative of Messrs Booth, Macdonald and Co*. Ltd., arrived in Gisorne last Sunday for the purpose of inspecting the Cook Countv Conn-. ml * road making plant, “ After a good - of consideration,” added vld Hodgins, “our Council decided “I there was nothing else for it but a. plant; that to keep up with the times w> must have something more than the ordinary dray and cart and that sort of thing.” He said his Council was prepared to spend someSin? \ P T plant. Mr Dc G. Fraser was their * nd that fact them confidence m coming to Gisborne. Ihe visitors spent some time inspecting the Cook Countv Council’s uJantT r °lr ° mshor flTld °ther plant. Mr Hodgins stated he was w,t! ’ "’hat they saw in 33, d the roller and crusher, but until they had seen what other me. clnnery could do he was not prepared to say anything. The motor roller was w„ 011 n tl,e hind in N.Z., so naturally they wer e desirious of seeing it and finding out all thev could about it. He was informed the roller had been in use for about three rears and it certainly appeared to be in *■ an,i *“ r A Tho visitors were very pleased with vLV?T p t 10n the y e°t and with the way they were treated bv Mr De and Engineer, anti Mr J. J. Keane. Tliev left bv Thursday y boat and will visit Taranaki to inspect machinerv there before reporting to their Council.