TANGAHOE DEVIATION

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 7

TANGAHOE DEVIATION

WORK PROCEEDS SATISFACTORILY. HAWERA COUNTY COUNCIL MEETS. The engineer (Mr. A. Muggeridge) reported to the Hawera County Council on Saturday that the hill on the Lysaght Road giving access to Mr. Tidswell’s property had had the authorised metal delivered. There was now good access at all times of the year. The hill by the Ararata factory on the Whareroa Road had been widened with metal from Batten’s pit and the metal backed up with clay. This was a necessary job as the sides were worn down two feet in places, making the road very dangerous for traffic. The deviation work at the Tangahoe was going on satisfactorily. The cutting on the Hawera side of the bridge should be through in a couple of months. It would be a great asset to the Highways Board and the council, as it would tend to cheapen the price of the bridge. A start had been made with the cutting and filling at the Mawhitiwhiti ford. The bridge to be erected on the Tangahoe Valley Road had been built in the yard and some of it carted on to the job. Three piles were required for the Hawera end, and they were procured at Opunake. Everything was on hand now except the decking, and this would be available shortly.

A start had been made procuring stone from the beach for crushed metal and chips for work ahead on the main highway and some of the other roads in the county. The 200 tons of bitumen ordered had come to hand in good order and was in stock at the county depot. The ranger and inspector, Mr. C. E. Baker, reported that six animals were impounded* during October. Seven persons were interviewed regarding noxious weeds and eight were ordered to trim hedges or cut back boxthorn. Mr. P. Keller, Public Works Department engineer, advised that a subsidy would no longer be paid on royalty on metal taken from the pit on the Main South Road near the Waingongoro stream. Subsidy could be paid on reasonable compensation for injury done to the owner by the council’s operations on winning the stone or spoiling the land but no subsidy could be paid on a royalty on account of the stone itself. Should the property be acquired, subsidy could be paid on the cost of the metal, as shown by a pit account, which would include the cost of acquisition and working. Those present were Crs. J. B. Murdoch (chairman), C. J. Preston, E. A. Washer, A. G. Larcom, T. A. Winks,. W. Rothery and J. Landers.