Improvements To Highways Urged
“Our highways, to put it tamely, are a disgrace at the present time,” said Mr E. R. Dillicar at Thursday night’s meeting of the Whakatane Chamber of Commerce when'he appealed for the strongest possible representations for an improvement. He trenchantly criticised the way the works on the Rotorua road in patricular were going on.
Mr B. L. Butler said it seemed to him the only way to get the jobs done satisfactorily was to hand it over to private contractors. The Works Department did not seem to have sufficient plant to keep their men going properly. It was suggestde that if all the taxation collected from motorists as such were put into highways, good roads would have been achieved ere this.
On Mr Whitworth’s suggestion, the Chamber set up a sub-committee, Messrs R. T. Morpeth, B. L. Butler, Neilsen (country representative), and the secretary (Mr N. E. H. Hockin), to persue the matter and to urge Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., to cooperate.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 58, 28 February 1949, Page 5
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