OHURA ROADING

Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1934, Page 7

OHURA ROADING

RESUMPTION OF ACTIVITIES.

IMPORTANT WORKS IN HAND.

With recent fine weather there is again renewed activity in roading matters in the Ohura district. A start has been made by the Public Works Department with the use of relief labour to complete the metalling of the Ohura-Mokau Road, which will give the settlers of the Aria district direct access to the railway at Matiere. About four miles of metab is required to complete the work, and it is estimated that this will all be laid down during the present summer. ‘

The Public Works Department is also establishing camps in the Opatu district for married relief workers for metalling several miles of Opatu district roads leading as far as the Wanganui River. On . Tongaporutu Road there is also considerable activity. Unemployed relief workers are engaged widening and improving the alignment, in the hill portion of the road leading from Ohura. Mr. K. Kallil has resumed his' contract for metalling about two miles of the road on the Waitaanga tableland, beyond the Waitaanga settlement. The Ohura County Council has decided to have some work done on “the grade,” where a slip rendered the road impassable all last summer. It is the intention of the council to do sufficient work to ensure that the road will be open for tourist traffic prior to the Christmas holidays. That should not be difficult, judging by the experience of the Taranaki Automobile Association’s patrol officer who, with the assistance of the Waitaanga settlers in levelling the surface of the road, negotiated the road safely last month. The opening of this toad will be a great boon to Ohura residents, as it will enable them to spend a day at the Tongaporutu beach whenever they wish.