WAINUI TE WHARA ROAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 12, 5 October 1945, Page 8

WAINUI TE WHARA ROAD

BOROUGH COUNCIL'S RESFONSI-

BILITY

COUNTY URGES IM PROVEM ENTS

Writing the County Council at its meeting last Tuesday the. Borough Council advised that it had nothing further to add to its former letter with regard to< effecting improvements to the Wainui To Wtoara Boad. (Maraetotara).

Cr McCracken asked if the highway was not a 50/50 responsibility between the two bodies.

'"No" replied the Chairman (Mr J. L. Burnett). "The road is- situated some eight chains within the Borough boundary and after the last Hood it was badly knocked about. It has become so narrow that the undertaker considers it too risky to take funerals up that way and therefore they are forced to go through the town. The Borough Council in response to the County's 7,-presentations declines to effect any improvements and we l'eel it should do something to restore the road to its former state."

The Council deckled that it was still of the opinion that the Borough Council should, face up to its responsibilities in regard to the repair of this road—also that the Borough Council be respectfully advised that in the interchange of this road for the present main highway a distinct financial advantage was gained by the Borough Council with a corresponding loss to the County—that this Council would have strenuously opposed, the interchange of the highways, had it considered, even as a remote possibilthat the Borough Council would not adequately maintain its portion of the road which thus became a full charge on Borough funds.