LINK WITH AUCKLAND.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5032, 27 September 1926, Page 4

LINK WITH AUCKLAND.

PROPOSED MAIN HIGHWAY.

MORRINSVILLE; - WAITAKARURU.

The suggeston/that another main high-way should be created to Unk up the Auckland-Thames and Wai-kato-Thames highways has again been made, this time at last week s, meeting of the Piako County Council. Cr. Stark moved : “That this cil recommends to 1 the Main Highways Board to declare the Morrin’Sville-Wai-takaruru road a main’highway, thus linking the Auckland-Waitakaruru-Thames main highway with the Ham-iltpn-Paeroa main highway a,t Morrinsville, connecting the townships of Ngatea, Patetonga, Tahuna, Mangateparu, and important traffic routes, such as the Morrinsvilie.-Tauhei-Tau-piri and Tahuna-Ohinewai roads with the main hiighway system.” Cr. Stark said there was an urgent need for a connecting link with the two highways. Cr. Walters said, that the Hauraki Plains County Council' had wanted tne highway via, Ngatea, then across the Maukoro bridge, and thence over a level road to the Waitoa-Matamata road. When the Waitoa-Matamata road w'as declared a, main highway his opinion was not asked tor. The Patetdnga people, he thought, were agitating for that road, and they blamed him because he was of the opinion that there, were too many highways. , The chairman (Cr. W. R. Lowry) said that a, Public Works Department engineer had expressed the opinion that the r»ad from Waitoa to Tahuna was not suitable for a main road, as the swamp country was not yet consolidated.

The motion wa.s carried unanimous-