Repairing Roads With Fescue

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5965, 18 August 1920, Page 3

Repairing Roads With Fescue

Objected to by County Council

Cr F. W. Howard called attention at last Monday’s meeting of the Piako . County Conncil to the practice obtaining in some parts of "the Connty of dumping fescue sods and other vegetation in holes on the roadway. He moved that the engineer be recommended to prohibit the use of this material, adding : “ The men might just as well be supplied with a pack of cards for them to sit down to and fill in the day !” Cr. Glynn said he was representing a riding where there was a lot of swamp roads, and a dump of rushes or fescue was often useful in pieventtiDg a hole getting much worse. Cr. Howard said he would object to the use of such material on the Manawaru Riding roads. Cr. Orr wanted to know if the statement that the surfaceman had been instructed by the engineer not to 'take orders from anyone but the engineer was correct ? _ The engineer replied that this was absolutely incorrect. Councillors briefly discussed this ► aspect, and made it quite clear that while they required employees to take their instructions from the engineer, the riding members would be backed up by the whole Council in any action they may take in an emergency Buch as the absence from the job ot the engineer. J