M.P.to Report on Pakowhai Road

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 2

M.P.to Report on Pakowhai Road

COUNTY DID NOT APPOINT HIM HASTINGS, Last Night. Intimation from Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, of his inton tion to visit the county at the end of this month or early in March was received to-Qay by the Hawke’s Bay 1 County Council. This information prompted the inquiry from a councillor: “Will Mr. Semple inspect the Pakowhai road?” “Mr. Barnard is going to make a 1 report on it,” replied the chairman, Mr. F. B. Logan. “On behalf of the council, I have not appointed Mr. Barnard as an inspector,” added Mr. Logan. “Perhaps Mr. Barnard will ride his bicycle over the Pukowhai road,” suggested a councillor. “When Mr. Barnard has ridden his bicycle over the Pakowhai road there are a few other roads in the county on which his bicycle would also give him a good shaking,” said Cr. E. H. Beamish. “A fair khing is a fair thing, but the mattor of Pakowhai road has been overdone. Other people will begin to talk very soon,” he added. Tenders for Sealing. Tenders for the metalling of the Pakowhai Toad are to bo considered by tho Hawke’s Bay County Council at its March meeting. At to-day’s meeting Cr. C; Lassenexpressed the opinion that both the Te. Mata and Maraekak&ho roads should be sealed before the Pakowhai road. In reply, the chairman, Mr. F. B. Logan, said that the Pakowhai road was first on the list and could not be deferred.