FINIGAN'S ROAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 122, 27 June 1941, Page 5

FINIGAN'S ROAD

DEPUTATION TO COUNCIL. I COUNCIL GRANTS £200 Mr A. J. Hastie wrote to thf' Whakatane County Council early iri June suggesting that if the Engineer found the cost of Finigan's Road too heavy, the read be put through hif» property, through Mr Peake's lata property to link up with road pass* ing in front of Burt Bros, property* The writer recently had the bulldozer put a 12 foot motor road to his house and another £20' would put a good motor road into Peake's late property, theoice on the road is made' Cr Burt was promised a road through the writer's property and the same offer is now made to th<* council. It was suggested that the cmgineer report on the offer or meet the writer. The Works Committee reported! that it had inspected Finigan's Road in company with Messrs G. Colebrook, G. Matchitt, L. Caverhill and! S. H. Burt. Cr Burt was-also pre>sent. The County Engineer reported the cost of a 12 foot road would be £500. The deputation was prepared to construct the road to the top of the bluff to the creek side. It Avas decided that the council contribute £200 from the County Fund towards the cost of the construction of a road from the creek crossing at the top of the Bluff to the Miatata-Tauranga State Highway provided the settlers carry out this road work to a minimum road widtl*. at all places of not less than 14 feet and subject to the road construction being completed entirely to the council's? satisfaction and that the contribution be made on the satisfactory completion of such workj