BACKBLOCK ROADS
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Wairoa County Programme
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WAIROA, Last Night. The draft programme for the roading of backblooks in the Wairoa County Coundl's district, and sometimes known as "The Five-IYear Plan" involves the expenditure of £75,850 through additions may be made later when the counoil assembles in August to debate the proposals. The sum includes £16,200 fqr formation and culverting, the balance to be spent on metaJ, and when carried out shoidd be voted the biggest metalling programme ever carried out in the Wairoa County. People eapable of judging estimate that with the railway in operation the production of the county should be easily doubled. It is also held, in some quarters, that the backblock roading will quite easily absorb all the lorry owners who may be thrcwn out through railway qompetir tion.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 10
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135BACKBLOCK ROADS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 10
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