NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2740, 31 May 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Tiic 'Wanganui Bui-nugh Oonneil pill u]i a |ri -Ii l-eec.ril mi Monday evening, getting thrmigli a big onb-r paper in exactly 22 minutes. Some of the councillors seemed a hit bewildered at the suddenness of the proceedings, and could si-areely realise that there had been a <-oun-r-il meeting. Statements to ilit* eii’eei that the wrong mt‘thod of road ron-dnietion had lieen adopted in South Taranaki and that the tar-surfaeed roads were ' breaking-up, were reeenilv made hv Mr Patterson, the engineer imported from America to supervise the new const met ion work on the ITntl road. Mr H. F. Toogood, engineer for the Foatherston County Council made a personal inspection of the South Taranaki tarsealed roads ..ii Friday and he staled to u Tlawera Star reporter that Mr Patterson's conception of the roads was <|iiite wrong. Mr Toogood said he had had intimate knowledge of them for the past five or six years and lie considered that they had improved rather than broken up. A Taranaki authority <|iiestimicd on the matter thought that Air Patterson could not be allowing for I lie difference in the New Zealand and American climates.