COUNTY OF MATAMATA.

Putaruru Press, Volume XXI, Issue 1231, 22 May 1947, Page 5

COUNTY OF MATAMATA.

MOTOR LORRY TRAFFIC. Notice is hereby given that the Matamata County Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Clause 3 of Regulation 7 of the Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations, 1940, has prohibited the use of heavy motor vehicles in terms of the following resolution: — Whereas the surfaces of Maraetai Road (west of Whakamaru Road), Peach Road, Old Cambridge-Taupo Road (south of Baird Road junction), Pokaiwhenua (or Halse) Road, Tokoroa Road, Ngatira Road (east of Bartholomew’s Siding), Te Whetu Road, Lichfield Waotu (or Wiltsdown) Road, Campbell Road, Leslie Road and Pakaraka Road have not been constructed to a standard suitable for heavy motor vehicles and are incapable when in a wet or damp condition of carrying such heavy motor vehicles without suffering damage which cannot promptly be repaired in the ordinary course of road maintenance and whereas it is imperativethat such roads be kept in a continual state of reasonable condition for the benefit of households permanently resident on or along such roads: now therefore the Matamata County Council resolves that the said roads shall be closed to all heavy motor vehicles from the 30th day of May 1947 until the 31st day of October 1947 provided that this restriction may be modified in special cases and on such conditions as the Council may think fit to impose on written application setting forth all facts in support thereof, provided however that this pi'ohibilion shall not apply in the ease of vehicles which do not exceed the loading restrictions imposed by Class IV- and which are not contravening any other law, regulation or by-law and which are operating only when the road surfaces are dry. This notice supersedes all previous notices. Dated at Tirau this 16th day of May, 1947. J. A. BECK, County Clerk.