WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1929, Page 2

WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL.

TUESDAY, JULY 2nd., 1929.

MAIN HIGHWAYS REPORT

Overseer Millner reported as follows to the County Council to-day:—

I have the honour to submit the following report on work pei formed on the secondary highways for the month ending June 29th. LAKE KANIERI ROAD. A short section of widening an ' straightening a very crooked portion o' the road between the one-mile peg an Stoney Creek was commenced, and 900 links of clearing 10 feet wide, and 11 links of widening 9 feet wide, we* completed with coarse dredge screenings carted from the flat above Ivanier with the County lorry. Repairs Were effected to depressions and motor-worn holes over short sections from Kokatahi road junction to Lake Kanieri, u’lic yards of gravel being used for the purpose. Water-tables were clears, and banks dressed between Boucher’s Hill and Lake Kanieri for 40 chains in length. Over-hanging and encroaching scrub and blackberry growth wer cleared between the one-mile peg a Lake Kanieri in sections where snry for a distance of one mile nine chains in length. The road surface at Coal Creek was improved and metalled, ‘25 cubic yards o>f gravel being used fo> the purpose. Roadside dumps were replenished with gravel between Kokntahi road junction and the One M'lc peg, 25 cubic yards being dumped in readiness for future repairs. Repairs to motor-worn holes and depressions absorbed 65 cubic yards of gravel, a total quantity of 90 cubic yards for repairs and 30 cubic yards for widening beyond One Mile peg. LOWER KOK ATA HI -Mo A RTH UR ROAD. Lower Kokatahi-McArthur Road was repaired' with gravel and crushed metal; low portions scoured by recent floods were coated with gravel where necessary. One concrete pipe culvert near Mr Houliston’s residence badly scoured with flood water, was repaired, and eight 36-inch diameter concrete pipes carted up in readiness to increase the width of waterway of the present culvert by 36 inches in diameter. A defective culvert on Koiterangi road below Dimmick Creek bridge is to be renewed with fourteen 18-inch diameter pipes and this number of pipes were carted up in readiness for renewal. Encroaching blackberries were cleared (for three feet in width on both sides of the road over a distance of 15 chains. Motor-worn holes were repaired between Kanieri township and McArthur road, over a distance of eight miles, principally with gravel, and over three miles distance at the upper end with crushed metal; some portions of Cropp’s road receiving a coat of metal three inches in depth and twelve feet in width. In addition, roadside dumps were replenished with gravel between Kanieri and Kokatahi fridge. The quantity of gravel used in repairs amounted to 232 cubic yards, 66 cubic yards dumped at roadside, and 50 cubic yards of crushed metal placed on the Koiterangi roads. In addition numerous scours caused by the river overflow were repaired with displaced material.