ROAD ACCESS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 1, 24 August 1943, Page 5

ROAD ACCESS

BAY OF PLENTY AREA Attention to work which should be. put in hand at once in tiie Gisbornc road district was directed by Mr W. Sullivan, M.P. for Bay of Plenty, when discussing the Estimates in the House of. Representatives. Mr Sullivan .said lie noticed that the sum of £10,000 was provided for the Gisborne road district, and the. expenditure last year was £1179, while the vote for the Greymouth road district was £50,000, the expenditure last year being Kll,:s9:L He wished to bring to the. Minister's notice the necessity for work on the main highway Opotiki-Te Araroa. There was a bad stream which, after Hoods, made the road impassable, and he thought an effort should be made to. bridge that stream. Then there was the case of Chilcott's Crossing on the Waioeka road. It was a dangerous crossing, particularly after a downpour of rain. Both works should have attention. Mr Sullivan said there -was a bigger work of. which the Minister might make a special note with a view to its being incorporated in some scheme of rehabilitation work. He referred, to a proposed road which had been surveyed from Tc Karaka to Tolaga Bay. There, was a gap between two roads for about four or live miles. The country was difficult, and if a road could be made as suggested, it. would shorten the distance for travel and the transfer of stock to the Bay of Plenty by 50 or GO mies. He. understood that at one time the work was on the list of urgent works.