SEALING AT WAIMANA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 54, 6 March 1945, Page 4

SEALING AT WAIMANA

QUESTION OF OUTLAY PERMANENT SCHEME ENDORSED The decision of the Whakatane County Council to vote a further £500 to the sealing of a strip of highway passing through the township of Waimana in order to ensure a permanent surface will be endorsed by right-thinking ratepayers. The initial scheme involved £500 for a completed one-coat job. The new decision increases the cost to £1000 but ensures a job that will be practically maintenance-free and will compare with the well 'known surface through the Mamaku Bush. The debate on the subject provoked a considerable variety of ideas. Cr McCready mentioned Taneatua Station Road which needed attention. Cr Hunter mentioned Edgecumbe and Te Teko j while Cr McCracken warned that the County finances were not as rosy as they ! were ? and that all townships pested with the dust nuisance would treat the Council's decision as a precedent whereby they likewise could gain recognition. The Chairman pointed out that Edgeeumbe and Matata were assisted by the fact that the State Highway travelling through made their tarsealing costless to the ratepayers..

The consensus of opinion, however? was that it was the wisest plan to proceed along the lines suggested by the and to institute a fourteen chain strij) through Waimana which would stand up to all types of traffic for many years to come.