ROSKILL ROAD BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 14

ROSKILL ROAD BOARD

INCREASED SUBSIDIES A letter was received by tlie Mount Roskill Road Board last evening from the Main Highways Board advising that it had been decided that as from April 1 last, all expenditure on maintenance and new bridges is to be subsidised on the basis of £2 for £1 on any main highway without the necessity of declaring such highway to be a Government road. As the Highways Board undertook onehalf of the cost of maintaining Mount Albert Road until it is laid in concrete, the Road Board will now be relieved of the payment of a further sum from its share of this work. A letter from the Public Works Department advised the board that there was a movement on foot promoted by owners of heavy vehicles to induce the Government to discontinue the regulation which authorises local bodies to charge heavy licence fees. The letter stated that a conference is to be held in the New Year and asked for particulars as to the amounts received for fees, also for information as to the damage done to the roads by heavy traffic and whether a heavier class of road construction had been adopted to provide for loaded weights in excess of three tons. The information is to be supplied, together with the board’s opinion that the heavy vehicles were damaging the roads to a greater extent than lighter cars consuming an equal quantity of petrol. The Auckland Power Board wrote to say that it expects to have a new line erected along Ridge Road from Cape Horn Road to Halsey- Avenue in a few weeks’ time, when the street lights asked for will be installed. The One Tree Hill Road Board refused to change the name of Greenfield Road, and pointed out that as Gi'eenfield Road in the Mount Roskill district was some two miles distant from the Greenfield Road in the One Tree Hill area, there should be no reason for confusion. A similar objection to* change the name of Inverness Avenue was received from the Auckland City Council. The general account is £8,025 in debit. Permits were granted for the erection of 13 buildings to the value of £6,026.