A SECOND HIGHWAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 11

A SECOND HIGHWAY.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln a recent issue of the Daily Kews appears a statement that the Public Works Department has handed over the Wiremu Boad to the Egmont Council and tliat there is now a second highway from New Plymouth to Opunake. This m quite erroneous. The road is formed apd bridged at an exponditure of anything over £30,000 by the Government, but it is only a clay road still and is quite unfit for wheel traffic and is of little use until metalled, which the Egmont County, for lack of funds, cannot do. The council, however, lias all road-making machinery and plant and would, no doubt, bo glad to lend the same for metalling the road. I notice by the Press that the Minister for Labour, Hon. 8. G. Smith, and others, are very anxious to find useful work for the unemployed. Well, the metalling of the Wiremu Road is the most useful, 'necessary and urgent work in all Taranaki, and if not done the Governments larger expenditure may as well have been thrown into the sea. I

notice that our M.'sP. are quite silent on this matter, as also is the Hon. Mr. Smith, who knows this road quite well. At present settlers cannot go by the road to Plymouth port and town And have to go to other Taranaki towns to do their ls the New Ply mouth Expansion League alao dead?— X am, etc., M. O'BRIEN.