TAR-SEALING ROAD
CONTRACT LET BY PIAKO COUNCIL. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) TE AROHA, Wednesday. At the meeting of the Piako County Council yesterday, the tender of Mr R. Goosman, of Waitoa, for metalling and tar-sealing two and a-half miles of the main highway through Waitoa was accepted. The amount was £3119, and the engineer's estimate was £3040.
It was decided to approach the Main Highways Board asking for an increased subsidy, and pointing out that the Waitoa riding was very heavily rated. In the Morrinsville riding, which extends from Motumaoho to Tatuanui, the work of reconstructing the 8i miles of main road was put in hand about a year ago. The whole of this section was reconstructed, and 25 miles was tarsealed last season. A further six miles from the bluff near Mr Dendy's farm on Hamilton road to the county boundary at Motumaoho will be sealed before Christmas. If the work in the Waitoa riding is pushed on as the council hopes, it will be possible to drive from Motumaoho to Waitoa on a tarsealed road within six months.
In the Waihou riding there is a section of five miles from Waitoa township toward Te Aroha, which the council hopes to have reconstructed next winter. Plans for the work have already been drawn up and submitted to the Highways Board for approval. The council expects to receive authority at any time to go ahead with this work, but as a reconstruction of the roadway can only be done in the rainy season the start will probably not be made until next autumn.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3353, 24 September 1931, Page 5
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