CREAM STANDS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 17, 29 May 1939, Page 6

CREAM STANDS

o MUST NOT BLOCK TRAFFIC In a letter to the Whakatane Count 3' Council the District Public Works Engineer said the Main Highways Board is adverse to settlers erecting cream stands in a haphazard fashion and insists that they be placed well off the trafficable portion of a highway, as long as sufficient clearance is available for passing vehicles. AVhere possible the stands should be placed a minimum distance of 20 feet from the centre of the existing highway. The stands should not be erected adjacent to corners and where the visibility will be blocked, and the practice of cream lorries parking on the wrong side of the road to oncoming traffic should most certainly be discouraged. Existing stands which are considered dangerous should most certainly be set back at the expense of the settler concerned, and if the operation of the cream lorries cuts lip Miu side cf the road„ damaging the shoulder of the metalled or paved surface and spreading mud on the pavement or metalled strip, then the access to the stand should be metalled. Tue board will approve of the usual maintenance subsidy being payable in those cases where the welfare of the highway proper requires the detour to be metalled. Where the highxy.iy s not a 'versely the run j'vto the cream stand need not be metalled unless the landowner or person who benefits pays the full eo«t etc. Or W. MeCiack-n said the Edge. •umbe-Te Teko road settlers had been lotified to shift their cream stands back. In some cases thi.> would' l> awkward. He had told settlers thsa they must discuss the matter wMtl the Highways Department.