MARLBOROUGH COUNTY

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1924, Page 3

MARLBOROUGH COUNTY

modern roads. BLENHEIM, March 21 During a meeting which lasted for about live hours the new Marlborough County Council, which has taken the place of the five road hoards which have hitherto controlled the district s local affairs, did some important spade work, chief amongst which was the attention it gave to its future policy j„ the matter of loading and means by which road-making will be carried on within the county. The county engineer (Mr G. S. Whiteside) in his initial report complimented the council on the state of the roads at present and paid a tribute to the pioneering work of the road boards, but htf also quietly indiated that henceforth roading in Marlborough would have to be on a more modern footing, and he momentarily scared the meeting with a list of up-to-date efficient machinery which would he required before anything very much could be done. . To the credit of the council it did not remain aghast long at the unusual (mures with which it was confronted but it stoically accepted the remark of the chairman (Mr C. Noes) that the county, if it was going to have good roads must be prepared to pay foi them. , , When the members became used to higgling with thousands in the place of the erstwhile hundreds of road board expenditure they faced the problem of a roading policy readily enough. . ... “if we don’t get machinery we will he in just the same rut as we have been in for the last forty years, declared Councillor Mills. This represented the views of most of the council and a committee was set up to report on the machinery required and the amount of loan money needed for road making.