RAILWAY ROAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 April 1939, Page 5

RAILWAY ROAD

o ELIMINATING BAD CORNERS WORK MAY PROCEED Subject to the Main Highwavi Board £8 for £1. subsidy being available,' the realignment of R'ihvav Road, at a cost of £(>6O wiM be v>;;dertaken by the Whakatnne C:>unt'\ Council. This was decided a t the council's meeting on Mondnv wit *:n - ---it adopted a works committee recommendation to this efTeci;. fa- J. L. Burnett said thnt two had >; S' bends would be taken The work was very important and should be undertaken. Then*, was quite a lot more to be done later on as several parts of the road had sunk and should be raise?!. Tlte auestion of the telephone poles on Railway Read on the Tru.. oatua side of the railway bridge also came before tlr* council when fi lottor froci the Postmaster at Whaka. tane was'received. It stated that the matter of moving the poles had been referred to the District Telegraph Engineer. Hamilton, for his decision and this would be conveyed to the council in due course. The county clerk, Mr C. G. Lucas reported that an officer of the department had telephoned him, and a recommendation would be made sup. porting the shifting of the posts to the fenceline. The department is to be requested again to shift the poles over the fence on to the railway reserve. SHIPPING The Toa which arrived in Whaka. tane yesterday brought a full general cargo, included in which were two dinghies ordered by Mr W. D. Par: sons. Matata and Mr Sheather, Why katane. The Toa will probably take back to Auckland about 1500 boxe* of butter and 200 crates of cheese, besides the usual quota of empties. The Vesper sailed for Auckland yes day, her loading including a quan. tity of timber and many empt 1 drums, kegs and eases of bottles.