BOROUGH EXTENSION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 43, 12 February 1946, Page 5

BOROUGH EXTENSION

HARBOUR.' BOARD’S PLAN

DRAINAGE CONTINGENT UPON ADOPTION

Urging the completion of the agreement covering the drainage outlets tram the Strand, the Borough Council wrote the Whakatane Harbour Board, last Friday stating that such agreement bore no relation to the meeting which had been planned for the .purpose of discussing the Strand extension road and therefore linal.ity would be welcomed. Mr W. R. Boon pointed out to the .meeting that the whole crux of fm ture drainage depended upon the extension scheme being carried out or not. If the roading scheme were not pursued it would have a vast bearing upon any agreement for future drainage outlets through the flats. It could not be otherwise. He .-added that sooner or later the Board •would be meeting the Borough * Council on. the matter and he hoped .the whole question could be amicably settled, then. The desirability of the rotid going through was borne out by the building of the timber mill structure on Cad mail’s corner in anticipation, already.

It was decided to reply that the Board was of the opinion that access across the mud-flats was bound up with any agreement it might enter into with the Council, which might have to be amended or abandoned .and in the circumstances it considered its previous resolution sufficient to deal with the position as it now obtained.