Ladbrooks

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31098, 29 June 1966, Page 16

Ladbrooks

Sir, —I agree with “Ratepayer” regarding Broadfield. Not only is Robinsons road forgotten, but the Broadfield district as a whole is a forgotten and neglected area. We have no street lights or any modern amenities. Roads are wet and messy and appear to be forever used for car club trials during which the farmer and his employees become targets for flying shingle. The Paparua Council has carried out negligible improvements in the last 20 years. Rates for this period have cost me approximately £3OOO and the cost to some farmers in excess of this amount. The

chairman of the Paparua County states that the council is going to spend £3OOO to improve the Robinson’s road area. May I ask if this is the only area where money is going to be spent and what happens to the rate money collected from Broadfield district—Yours, etc., FORGET-ME-NOT. June 17, 1966. [The chairman of the Paparua County Council (Mr D. H. Warren) replies: “It is the policy of the council’s rural district committee to seal all important rural roads as rapidly as finance will allow, and six to eight miles a year of additional road sealing has been achieved over recent years in addition to the many other services the council provides. It is of interest to note that 66 per cent of Broadfield riding roads are now sealed compared with a county average of 28 per cent. The Broadfield riding contributes some £4OOO in county general rates and this year’s rural works programme provides for the expenditure of £3OOO for the straightening of the bends on Robinsons road and £lBOO for the sealing of 44 chains of Robinsons road from Springs road west, in addition to customary road maintenance, fire, and general services.”]