THE PAEKAKARIKI HILL ROAD.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 12 May 1920, Page 2

THE PAEKAKARIKI HILL ROAD.

A DIBGKACB AND A DHATH-TKAP. At tlio monthly meeting of the Hutt County Council yesterday a letter war. received from the Public Works Department asking lor £IbO, a sum that the Council had offered towards the work of improvement. The letter further pointed out that the work on the road had been completed. “Completed!'’* said Cr. Howell in a stentorian voice. * * Why, ’ 1 said the councillor, “the lirst move of the Council should be to repudiate the payment, and, it possible, to get the Minister of Public Works to view the work. It is a disgrace and a death-trap, and the amount, should be repudiated till the work is done satisfactorily. The Council, he added, had agreed to subisdise the work, anil the money would certainly be available as soon as the work was done. Little bits of wood, broken posts, an t other rubbish hail been put in the bank, and the lilling was so dangerous that if a car went on io it the occupants would go to eternity. Saplings of kohikohi, the life of which was about two years, had been stuck iu. lhe Chan man said a should be sent that as soon as the work was satis-la-.ioiily done the subsidy would be paid. Cr. Howell said the state oi the road should be made known to the travelling public, and he asked “would the Government ever allow the Council to do such work The whole of the road was tlnnsy. being built of rotten stuff’, and a lorry only had to swing a little wale to bo ‘‘no more." The Chairman: Why not erect notice boards to say the road is unsafe lor r . l a il ic Cr. Ilowell said the iirst foreman iu charge did splendid work, but alter lie left there was a different tale, and by the way things had been carried out. there would soon be only an Bft road. Jt was eveutually decided to leave the matter in the bauds ol Cr. ilowell and the inspector, who were deputed to wait on the Minister and point out tbo ’ ‘ beaut il’ul ’ ’ work dune.