PATETONGA ROADING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5479, 25 September 1929, Page 2

PATETONGA ROADING.

DEPARTMENT’S ACTIVITIES.

REPORT OF PROGRESS.

The Patetonga riding reading scheme, which the Lands Drainage Department is carrying out for the Hauraki Plains County Council, is mentioned in the department’s annual report as follows : — “A scheme for metalling eight miles 20 chains of the Patetonga main road and 100 chains of the Patetonga Landing road was inaugurated this year, and a contract was let for the supply and delivery of 13,950 cubic yards of metal from a quarry which has been opened on land owned by the Hauraki Plains County Council. Owing to delays in the delivery of the crushing plant the contractor supplied only 552 cubic yards of broken metal to the end of the period under review. The formation of an access road to the quarry, the stripping of over-burden at the face, and the installation of crushing plant occupied some time, but now that most of the preliminary work has been done, sufficient metal should be supplied to lay the first course on the unmetalled gap in the Morrinsville-Patetonga road before the winter. The formation of the road for metalling is being carried out with the department’s road plant, and two miles of formation has been completed. Clay carted for filling depressions and haunching metal where the road bed consists of clay ballast laid on peat totalled 1262 cubic yards.”