SPREADING THE METAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 397, 20 September 1911, Page 5

SPREADING THE METAL.

oOn Monday night the Waitomo County Council accepted tenders far metalling ten miles of roads near Otorohanga.. at a cost of £6OOO, and tenders are now being called for the formation of a group of roads in the Mairoa district —the Arapae, Mairoa, Ngapaenga—and other road 3, which, when completed during the coming summer, will open up, for use, winter or summer, a series of highways giving an extent of nearly fifty miles of metalled or formed roads within the county, in addition to what at present exists. The influence of this forward loading movement is not difficult to foresee. The development of the county will go forward by leaps and bounds, and settlers and their wives and families will no longer be mudbound when winter drops the curtain

upon summer's activities. The good work done by the chairman of Waitomo County Council when in Wellington was spoken of appreciatively at Monday night's council meeting, and the fact that the sum of £16,800 is available for expenditure, together with a substantial subsidy for the

same Mairoa loan, speaks for itself in language stronger than anything else. i Waitomo County is only on the fringe of its development. The great dairying industry will be one of its leading businesses within a very short time, and metalled roads are above all essentia! to carrying this on from a wide area of territory. By next autumn the k isolation of many of our back block jk districts will be dispelled.