HANGATIKI CAVES ROAD

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 441, 21 February 1912, Page 5

HANGATIKI CAVES ROAD

A UNIQUE POSITION SUBSIDY GRANTED, LOAN REFUSED Hangatiki Road.—With reference to the refusal of the Advances Board to grant the £IOOO loan on the Caves road and £2OOO loan on the Hangatiki road, the Prime Minister wrote stating that he had made enquiries and found the board would not consider loan 3 from local bodies which had .already raised £SOOO from the office. The demand for money from the department had become so persistent that the board are obliged to refuse applications from the more progressive bodies who had already exceeded the limit and reserve the funds for the assistance of the local bodies less favourably situated.• —Cr Johnston said he considered the matter should be pushed a little further if there was any possibility of seeing the loan through. It was an important portion of a comprehensive scheme. Th 9 loan for metalling the Caves road had been granted and this meant that some miles from the Caves out back were to be metalled and the six miles from the Caves to the railway at Hangatiki would remain unmetalied. The wrong loan had been rejected. The metalling scheme was little good unless it led to the railway. If any road in the county deserved assistance in metalling this one did. It was used by tourists from everywhere in visiting the Caves. They were now in the position of having a subsidy granted by the Government for the work and were unable to obtain the loan to cavry on and would be unable to claim the subsidy. He urged that the chairman should be sent to Wellington if there was a possibility of any good being done. —The chairman said he thought it would be injudicious to go to Wellintgon at the present time. There was to be a deputation of King Country County Councils to Wellington during the session and he would have to be ready to go on that business. The two matters could be attended to together.—The matter was left to the chairman to deal with.