THE HUTT ROAD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 19 December 1916, Page 6

THE HUTT ROAD

VISITED BY THE HTJTT ROAD BOARD.

It is not very often that {lis Hutt Road is visited by the Hutt Road Board, nor under the existing conditions docs it appear to bo necessary that it should. The board is practically a "dummy" one, as the power of control is vested in the- Wellington City Council just as much as is Lambton Quay and Willis Street. All the surrounding bodies have to do is to pay tlioir share of the cost of upkeep. As there have been sharp differences of opinion as to how that work should be do/ic, as little as possible lias been done.

Yesterday Messrs. J. P. Luko (chairman), Messrs. R. Wakebam (Hutt County Council), C. C. Crump (Onslow), and J. W. M'Ewan (I'ctoiie), with Messrs. AV. H. Morton (City Engineer), Jno. R. Palmer (Town CJwrk), visited tho Hutt Road, per motor, and mado an inspection of its condition with a view to reporting there on to a meeting of tho board to bo held early in tho now year. Tho metal surface was found to ba worn very ;hin in places, and in somo instances holes had been worn down to tho boulder foundation. Thore were looso patches, too, consequent upon tho long spell of dry weather, but on tho whole the road was not so bad.

At least ono member of the party thought that that stretch of main"road between Petono and Lower Hutt which was repaired with river gravel, was in a bettor condition than tho main road that was patched with metal that cost considerably more.