PATETONGA RIDING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4972, 10 May 1926, Page 1

PATETONGA RIDING.

SUITABILITY FOR METALLING. ENGINEER’S OPINION. A step in connection with the Pate-' tonga, roading” question has been made during the. past month. In reply to the Hauraki Plains County Council’s letter after last month’s, meeting the Chief Drainage Engineer, Mr Oi N. Campbell, wro,te welcoming the council’s, proposal that the local drainage engineer should accompany the-coup-cil’is engineer over the Patrtonga road with a view to arriving at. a mutual understanding 'as to their suitability ,to receive matai. The county engineer made the following statement in his monthly report • “As instructed at the last meeting, I have inspected the clay roads within the lands drainage area in the Patetonga riding. In my opinion .the loads as a whole may be considered fit to receive metal where metalling is likely to be carried on. There are isolated places on the, Mangawherb road where a few loads of clay would be necessary beffore laying metal. The Patetonga tram road is. being reclayed .to where the barren land sta|rts, and it is a Question whether a certain amount of metalling or the retention of the .tramway to the- wharf .'would serve the beat interests of the district. On the main road, near Pollen’s outlet, there is a . certain amount of timber under the clay which may in future cause trouble.. In the event <Jf any proposal to metal this road being carried, it wb>uld be quite justifiable to metal this) short distance and risk future damage from the timber rather than leave an unmetalled gap in .the road. It is to be understood that if metalling is done it will be necessary to cart, say, 22 yards of clay for haun'ching metal. Although the. roads are fit to receive metal now, it does not say that they will be so in, say, five years’ time.”