TURUA ROADING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4322, 26 September 1921, Page 2

TURUA ROADING.

RETURN OF DELEGATES. FROM TARANAKI VISIT. PUBLIC MEETING CALLED. (“Gazette” Staff Reporter.) TURUA, this day. At a recent public meeting in Turua, in regard to suggested roading improvements, a sub-committee was appointed to visit Taranaki and Auckland, with a view to inspecting various classes of roads, and to report thereon, the ultimate object being .to formulate a comprehensive and sound reading scheme for Turua riding. The of this sub-com-mittee have now returned, being Messrs J. C. Miller (chairman of the Hauraki Plains County Council), Gordon McMillan (chairman f the committee), W.G. Hayward (member Hauraki Plains County Council), P. Henry, and W. Madgwick. -The gentlemen above-named visited Auckland, Palmerston North, and Taranaki, and inspected various classes of roads : tar graded, tar sealed, tar macadam, and concrete. Though reserving his opinion until the public meeting advertised for Friday next in the Victoria Hall, Turua, Mr McMillan, when interviewed by the resident staff representative oc the “Gazette” cn the Plains, said the party saw far better roads in Taranaki than were to be seen down this way. ( ASTONISHING TRAFFIC GROWTH. As shewing the difference in traffic which good roads induced, Mr McMillan said there was one toll-gate in Waimate West where accurate ,g--ures were available from. Ten years ago only 70 motor-cars had used this particular road during a year, but last year 22,000 cars and 7000 motorlorries had passed through this tollgate. Horse-drawn vehicles are to be added to the above figures. It is a truly astonishing development. Seeing that the roading question is easily the most vital one affecting all portions of the Hauraki Plains today, it is to be hoped- that the residents to a man will attend the meeting next'Friday, at 7.30 p.m.