LEVIN-FOXTON HIGHWAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40042, 21 December 1929, Page 2

LEVIN-FOXTON HIGHWAY.

COUNTY CHAIRMAN WILL PRESS FOR COMPLETION.

' “What is the position regarding Highways?” asked Cr. Catley, at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday. “We have come to a dead-end, have we not?”

The County chairman (Mr. Monk) stated that the chairman of the Highways District Council had promised to call a meeting in February so that estimates could be. considered early in the year for starting work in April.

iCr. Catley: I think it is necessary for us to know when we are likely to be able to start. We are keening men employed for what was to have been a three-vear job. I neper thought that it would be done in that time; but we are half-way through the fifth year. There is a good deal to do yet. I am anxious to know when we are going to finish. It is recognised now what value a finished road is, as compared'with the old macadam road. People who once looked askance at it are now pushing for money and the Board is meeting them. We are entitled, to some consideration, seeing that we got the ratepayers to assent to a loan. We could move faster if the money was available.

The chairman: The circumstances were exceptional. While we wore the only people about here who were doing Highway works there was somewhere for the money to go, hut now the whole of New Zealand is doing it and the allocations are cut down. The thing is for the District Council to meet and urge that it be pushed on. I want to he in a position so that when this sealing is done we ean go on with the formation. They granted the extra money for the penetration; that was not done without a vlittle effort. The operations of the (Board to-day are not as free a.s they were twelve months ago.

Cr. Gimblett: (to the Chairman): When the District Council meets in February, are you going to press for the completion of the Foxton Road? The chairman: I want to see the job done. The subsidy has been agreed to. Certainly I will urge that that he done. Cr. Gimblett: At the end of the holidays there will be some decent potholes in it. The chairman: Yes, but you need not worry. I had thought that it was better to urge one road at the time I asked for extra money; but I asked that: something he done this year, so that we would know where we were on April Ist.