TOWN ACCESS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 89, 11 July 1944, Page 5

TOWN ACCESS

COURSE OF MAIN HIGHWAY

EARLY CONSTRUCTION URGED

The interest of businessmen in the course of the proposed new main highway which for the past eight years has been a fluctuating topic of controversy in Whakatane,, was demonstrated at the last meeting of the Whakatane Chamber of Commerce, when it was decided to write the Minister of Works, urging that the scheme be given priority in the Dominion'.-wid'e schedule of post-war undertakings, which the Government is at present in the course of compiling. Mr G. Brabant considered that on and off Whakatane had heard too much of the project without getting sufficient definite information on it. The- townspeople should at least be informed as to what course the new road was. likely to> take. Mr W. Sullivan pointed out that the P.W.D. had set up a works organisation and had asked all local bodies to forward their most urgent works for consideration, in the years immediately succeeding the end of the war. These undertakings would be considered on their merits and put into actual work in order of their priority. He understood that both the Borough and the County had asked that the main highway under discussion should be given the fullest consideration. He was sure that the Minister was sympathetically inclined and would give the matter a favourable hearing. The. Chamber decided to- write the Department as above.