FLOODED HIGHWAY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5309, 6 August 1928, Page 2

FLOODED HIGHWAY.

TAEBOA-TE AROHA ROAD. SUGGESTED DEVIATIONAt. the Ohinemuri County Council meeting on. Thursday Cr. Mace said that the floods were, doing a great amount of damage'to the road at Waitoki, and .he thought the time had come when, as a national undiete taking, both the road and rail should be deviated, across the, high land. If this .was commenced at once it could , be easily finished in a yea.r and would use up a lot of the unemployed labour. If the county had powpr he = would like to see the council r.eeom- • mend it to the Government. The: flooding would always continue as; this piece of ground was a ponding; area. He moved tha.t the matter be: brought under the notice of both Mr; ’McMillan, M.P. for and Mr Samuel, M.P. fcr Ohinemuri. The suggestion was adopted. Cr. Johnstone suggested that the Main Highways Board should be written to on thle, matter of keeping the old road passable as an emergency road; The chairman thought that they should apply for a grant to put the old road in order. Had this road been passable it would have been used a great dea.l during, the past few weeks. e Or. Morris; also thought that the old roa.d should be kept open. The flood was not, to his mind ,as high as 27 years ago, 'and the main road would always be, impassable in times of floods. Cn Johnstone moved, and Cr. Hub- ■ bard seconded, that the matter of ' keeping open the old Te Aroha road . as an emergency road in time of : floods be brought under the notice ■- of the Public Works Department, and i that a grant be asked for to pla<e the n'oad in repair. The resolution wag carried..