KIWITEA COUNTY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 7

KIWITEA COUNTY

REPORT ON ROADS. The Januury meeting of the Kiwitea County Council was held at Kiinbolton to-day’, Cr L. T. McLean, presiding. Air G. K. EggerS (county overseer) submitted the lollowing report covering tlie mouth ended January 19: Main highways.—All sections ol main highways m the county have received frequent attention ii'olll the gradei plants and are in a reasonably fair condition, considering the spell of dry weather and the extraordinary volume of motor traffic during the past few weeks. The earring out of maintenance metal on No. 553 main highway is now in progress. A number of decking planks on the Cheltenham Cross Road bridge, No. 553 main highway, have had to be renewed and further repairs to the decking will be necessary at an early date. f l he work ol constructing a new culvert on No. 52 main highway at Mangarimu is well in hand and should be completed at an early date. Repairs to the decking of the bridge lon No. 377 main highway near Hewn j have been carried out. The contractors 'should be making ah early start dcI livering maintenance metal on the sec--1 tions of No. 377 main highway in the • Ongo riding.Hoads other than main highways.— i Cheltenham riding: The balance of the maintenance metal has been carted out . by the contractors. The roadmen have ■ attended to the usual maintenance i work as well as taking delivery ol the | maintenance metal. Haynes’s Line ! and a section of Beacousfield Road I have been dressed by the power i grader. Kiwi tea riding: Minor repair j work has been carried out and Perry’s, I Alcßeth’s and Bryce’s Lilies have been j trimmed by the grader. AVaituna ridling: The roadmen have attended to j repair work as well as assisting with 'the carting out of maintenance metal I on Sandon Block Road, in the Pakiln- | kura riding. Ongo riding: The roadman has attended to maintenance work i and improvements have been carried 'out at the junction of Williamson Road . West with No. 377 main highway. The roadman lias also assisted with the carting out of pit metal on the Sandon Block and Waipuru Roads. Kiinbolton riding: The roadmen have attended to the usual maintenance work throughout the riding, also the cutting back of overhanging fern and scrub. Minor grading work has been carried out on some of- the side roads. The power grader plant is at present working in this riding. Peep-o’-Day riding: The roadman on the eastern section has attended to the necessary maintenance work on the roads in his length. In the western section the roadman has been engaged in attending to metal surfaces and the cutting back of overhanging growth, etc., as well as assisting with the surface work and the cleaning out of water-tables and culverts on a section of the AVaituna riding. General.—During the month T have made fairly general inspection of county bridges on roads other _ than main highways and find that in a number of cases minor repairs are necessary, especially the renewal of decking on the bridges over the Iviwitca stream near Mr Bryce’s old homestead on the Ohingaiti-Pembcrton Road. All thg decking will have to be replaced with new timbers, approximately 3000 superficial feet, which has been ordered. I am arranging to renew the running decking planks on bridges on the Pakihikura-Afangnmoko and Ohingaiti-Pembcrton Roads. I have inspected a small bridge on Bryce’s Line and a large timber culvert' on Barrow’s Line, and find that both are in a very unsound condition. I consider that. they should be replaced with fairly large concrete box culveits, as in their present condition tliev are very unsafe for traffic.