FLOOD DAMAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 7

FLOOD DAMAGE

SUBSIDIES FROM GOVERNMENT.

ROAD RECONSTRUCTION WORK IN MASTERTON COUNTY.

The Minister of Public Works advised yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council that a flood damage subsidy of £1 for £1 amounting to £1750 on items totalling £3,500 had been granted by the Government towards the cost of flood damage restoration work. No subsidy, he wrote, would be granted for work required on Lett’s, Black Rock, Kaka Amu, Te Ore Ore Settlement, Homewood and Waingawa-Camp roads because it was considered that the council should be able to do these works without a subsidy from the Government. The District Engineer, Public Works Department, wrote stating that Cabinet had approved a £1 for £1 subsidy for flood damage on county roads, as follows; —Mangarei Road, £300: Stoddarts Road, £75; Wairere Road. £400; Wainui-O-Mapu Road and Bridge, £1.675; Mangaparuparu Road, £450; Millers Road, £300; Glendonald and Tanglewood roads, £150; Stron-var-Ngahape Road. £150; total, £3,500 Cabinet’s approval was for a subsidy of £1,750 on a £1 for £1 basis.

Lett’s Road Bridge, washed out in the same flood, had been placed on the Public Works Estimates and was not subsidised from the flood damage vote. Although £l,OOO, £1 for £l, had been recommended to be voted for this item, it would not be definitely known what subsidy could be mada available until the road estimates had been approved by Parliament.