WORST IN COUNTRY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 175, 3 November 1941, Page 5

WORST IN COUNTRY

ROAD AT TANEATUA

P.W.D. STRONGLY CRITICISED 1

"It is the worst road in the County—worse than it was forty years ago," vehemently declared Cr H. C. McCready at lasit week'te meeting of the County Council when levelling caustic comment at the Public Works Departments roa.d-making methods in the Taneatua locality. He referred to the road from the township to the railway station^ Continuing he stated that something would have to be done—people could not cross the thoroughfare which had been spread with "rotten" rock from a slip on the Main Highway. The road was now piled in haphazard fashion with such material at a height much greater than the footways with resultant dislocation of drainage. Cr R. F. Wardlaw: It is certainly no credit to anyone. Cr McCready: "There is no one in charge of the work either it appears. Everyone docs as he likes and all seem to think they are m charge." The chairman, Mr J. L. Burnett, agreed that the road was in a disgraceful condition with spoil apparently heaped on without method. "It gives the appearance that the material was just thrown on at random," he said, adding that only one side of the road could be used, and any reasonable foundation work absolutely ruined. Cr McCready also complained bitterly about the state of the main highway from Taneatua to Whakatane, claiming that it was full ol potholes and in an extremely bad condition. It was decided to draw the Department's attention to the conditions prevailing.