MANAWATU GORGE ROAD

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2118, 8 April 1914, Page 7

MANAWATU GORGE ROAD

.' ITS NATIONALISATION. ' (By Telerriph.—Special Ooiren>ond«nU Palmerston, April 7. ■ To-day Mr. D. Buick, M.P., interviewed the Kairangi County Council and , ■ urged its support of the scheme to nationalise the.Gorge Road, 'which,has lately been the subject of many complaints on account of its precipitous and ■ • tortuous character, and the. consequent to olr , "■■' The chairman;'of the County-Council -'(Mr. Bryant) said:that tho .iiationalisa 7 - tion of the road had been 'endorsed at a : ''"iecent" , meeting of delegates,- who had . decided to wait on the Minister, but he had heard nothing further on the mat- . ter: < Neither the Pahiatua Council nor ■ tho Kairanga. Council derived the rates tfrom a road which merely served to the two districts: Mr. Buick urged immediate action, so that .a clause might" be inserted in the * proposed Local i Government Bill to nationalise tho road. . It iwa-s decided to ask the Mayor of Woodville when he proposes to arrange ft deputation of. delegates to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and to urge early action. ': A letter from tho Woodville County Council stated that the council was arranging to take, a tally of the gorge traffic during November, December, and January next, with a view' to securing a new allocation of the maintenance Money. '...'.•