Manawatu County Highway
.Sir, — If evidence were required to transfer the main arterial highways administration from county councils to tlie Highways Board, then It is to be found in tlie Manawatu County. Here we find absolute indifference to the welfare of through niotorisls, from whom heavy taxation is collected, subordinated to subsidising roads over which through traffic from Wellington to Auckland never passes. The Whirokino Bridge across the .Manawatu - River, with its narrow and steep approaches, is a daily menace, and the scene of. innumerable accidents. Leaving tlie bridge and proceeding uorth to Foxton, motorists traverse two. dangerous bends, one across a culvert at an acute angle and a ramp. This section is subject to periodical Hooding, which could be avoided by deviating the highway in a straight line upon land above Hood level for two-thirds of the distance. The next portion which is a bugbear to motorists passing through this county is the rough metalled section between Ilitnatangi and Sanson, a distance of 14 miles. Six miles of this portion of main highway is to be suvface-sealed, and to complete the balance the County Council is demanding a subsidy of £6 for £l. It would be equitable to motor taxpayers for the board to allocate this increased subsidy by reducing the subsidies on subsidiary highways in this county, which has little or no sympathy for through traffic from which the bulk of the revenue is derived for road maintenance and construction. —I am. etc., MOTOR TAXPAYER. Foxton. [The Manawatu County Council last year expended over £5300 from the county fund account on improvements to main arterial roads. Over 22J miles of main arterial highway has been reconstructed, and a contract has been let for the construction of five miles of the highway complained of.]
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 13
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295Manawatu County Highway Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 13
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