ROADS AND BRIDGES

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 61, 6 March 1933, Page 6

ROADS AND BRIDGES

THE WAIPUKURAU COUNTY REPORT OF ENGINEER The engineer (Mr R. B. Price) submitted the following report to the Waipukurau County Council at its meeting on Saturday: — Hatuma Riding Trucks have delivered 334 cubic yards of pit metal to the Hatuma highway, the road being built up on the low side. The elm trees on the side of this troad have been lopped, and traffic can now use the whole width without the danger of striking the lower branches. An old wooden culvert on the Napier-Wellington highway has been replaced by a line of concrete pipes. The job has not been completed owing to the recent rain, but will be gone on with at the earliest possible moment. The power grader has worked five days raking in shingle on the NapierWellington highway, three days on the Waipukurau-Hatuma highway, and three days on riding roads. The fence on the Hatuma corner has been set back as decided by the committee in whose hands the matter was left. Mt. Herbert Riding General work has been carried out in this riding, the grader having worked two days on the Porangahau main highway and two days on riding roads. The widening on Mangatarata Hill is being done as men under the No. 5 scheme are available. Purimu Riding The work of blinding on Robinson’s Hill is still in progress, the total wages to date being £6 12/6. A temporary fence was put around a piece of Mr. W. J. Edgecombe’s property to allow the work to proceed. Mr Edgecombe will allow the council to fence off a large portion as £? metal reserve for further use, and I would suggest that this be done as the limestone showing is better than any other metal on that road. The grader has trimmed up the roads in this riding and a truck has delivered 32 yards of red metal to a rough portion on Hamilton’s road.