HOPAI WEST ROAD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4962, 16 April 1926, Page 2

HOPAI WEST ROAD.

QUESTION OF ADMINISTRATION. COMPLAINT FROM SETTLERS. At the last meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council Messrs J. W. Nea.te and J. Motion, settlers of Hopai West Road, waited upon that, body in reference to the administration ot the road. The council, Lands, Department, and Commissioner of ' Crown Lands, it, was stated, all declined responsibility for the road, which was half a chain, wide, including a 14ft and a 4ft dra ( in. Mr Motion had severer times offered to give land sufficient to make the road a chain wide. The first time this, offer w.as’ made it was turned down, but nine months ago .the‘offer was ■ accepted, and the settlers wtere ajdvised to wait and the road would be made to. the full width and legalised. Now the department had abandoned the Pouarua road—the legal outlet for the sections —and had cut deep drains across it. The speaker had been compelled to reside on the land and spend much money in development and improvements.

Cr. W. G. Hayward, a member de the South Auckland Land Board, said that the position was disgraceful. The offer of the settlers to give the land if the department would form the road had been made, but the department would not accept unless the council gave a, definite assurance of the amount of work required to be done bn the formation. He moved that-the engineer report to'the council ajs to the. amount of formation required. The motion was carried.