MAIN HIGHWAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 8

MAIN HIGHWAYS.

GREAT SOUTH ROAD PAVING. FRANKLIN COUNTY PORTION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, this day. Intimation fcas received at yesterday's meeting of Franklin County Council, that the Main Highways Board had decided to oer a subsidy of £3 for £1 towards the reconstruction and paving in concrete of the Great South Road within Franklin County, the work involved being reconstruction and paving a section, Papakura to Bombay Hills, paving Bombay Hills deviation, and the rest of the Great South Road to the Mangatawliiri Stream near Mercer. The engineer, Mr. J. F. McArthur, reported that the engineering survey between Papakma and Bombay had been commenced, and for the greater part of its length the alignment of the road had been defined with necessary deviations. The survey, he said, would be pushed ahead as speedily as possible. The Main Highways Board, it was stated, was anxious to have the road completed. The council discussed the matter in committee, and decided to advise the Highways Board that an estimate for the cost of the work as far as the Bombay Hills deviation was being made, and when the information was available the council would definitely decide on loan proposals. It was suggested that the Highways Board might be prepared to complete the metalling of the deviation which it had already constructed. At the request of the Highways Board, the engineer was authorised to take traffic tallies continuously through the 24 hours and for one week, one at the northern end of the Bombay Hills deviation on the South Road, and the other on the Drury to Waiuku Road at the Karaka school.