WAIKANAE TO UPPER HUTT

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 4

WAIKANAE TO UPPER HUTT

"completion' of' the "• bridle''" ' % ' : ■ urged/ ;,;^'<:; : .:.:.:/;;: A deputation iwas. intrbdnce'd--to'-, ths/' ■'■-. Minister for. Publio Worlss'yesterday'by'.::.. Mr. W. H. Field, M'.P.,,to urge that , about five miles'of a bridle track between , Waikanae. and Upper Hutt,should/-be" :, ; ' : formed and. graded. It was "stated that' .;• withtheexception of the fiv'B,.:miles... the balance of the way ;had ' already'.been - formed. The grade, according tea; mem- ~; 'bar of the deputation, would-, not -be,."-. steeper than 1 in.B.or. l.in 10./.To this ~.; the Minister remarked .that- the Govern- . ment did not.give money, for grades like;'■'."' that—hot for anything under lin 15. Mr.;.'■• Field pointed out.that the.: Government, '■; had been advancing- money. : on this road' /,' ■ for.years. In a goneral reply to the re-..,.- : - quest of the deputatioh, ..the Minister ■„.. said the order was a fairly large onevjly.. The land was all freehold, and/the deprb- ;; ■ tation could not look for. moire than a ■' £ for £ subsidy; He did not:kno'w that•',;" there was any obligation on the'Govern-., ■ ment to make roads . through'" : land sold . by the Manawatu Railway. Company. The County Council should really! make .'.. tha i. roads. At the &ame :time' he might see : . his way to give, the Hutt Comiiy Conn- . , cil a £ for J subsidy to make the road .--. over the isaddle. , :j.::a