FORDSON TRACTOR TO BE PURCHASED.
FOR COUNCIL WORK.
OR. WALKER’S PROGRESSIVE MOVE. At last night’s Borough Council meeting Cr. M. 11. Walker moved, seconded by Cr. Thompson that the Council purchase a Fordson tractor at the price named (£251, f.o.b. Foxton); also that a tip dray be suitably fitted up to be attachable to the tractor, and that thc\dray at present in use and the property of the Council be also converted for the same use; the purchase money be paid out of the £5,000' loan raised for road construction and when the work is completed the tractor and trailer be purchased by the Council and paid for out of the general fund, the price to be fixed by the finance committee.
Cr. Walker, in moving the motion, said he had made wide enquiries into the advisability or otherwise of obtaining a tractor for use in the borough. He read several recommendations in connection with tractors and stressed their usefulness in regard to road grading work. A tractor would ,be- a far cheaper proposition than horses, he said, and a great- saving could be effected in the cartage of metal by tractor power.
Cr. Thompson said that it. was efficiency the Council wanted with its road work and a tractor was a step in the righUxlirection.
The Mayor said that a tractor could do innumerable -jobs. It would be a wise policy to purchase one for borough work. Cr. McMurray congratulated Cr. Walker on his motion and said that the Council should have had a tractor long ago. The fact had to be considered, however, that the Council was now tar-sealing its roads, and. there would not be so much work for it in the future. Had this question been brought up before the roads were metalled, money would have been saved, but if the Manawatu County took over the boundary roads, and when the main streets were asphalted there might not be a great deal for it to do. He v.-ns not against (lie proposition, lie only wanted to be certain that the Council-would have sufficient work for a tractor after the tar-sealing was finished. The Clerk said that there would be about seven miles of road to maintain after the tar-sealing was finished.
Cr. Woods’ spoke in favour of the motion, and said (hat it was a pity a tractor had not been purchased before. - Cr. Wfalker said that the time was not too late to purchase a tractor, lie was out for the safeguarding of the ratepayers’ money. Efficiency with economy was his policy. Cr. Woods: Won’t, some of the roads included in the No. 3 roads and streets loan go bare while we are paying for the tractor? .
Cr. Walker said that the cost of the tractor would be saved before the loan money was expended. Spreading could practically all be done by a tip on the trailer. The motion was put and carried unanimously.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3537, 14 September 1926, Page 2
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489FORDSON TRACTOR TO BE PURCHASED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3537, 14 September 1926, Page 2
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