SUPPLIES OF METAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 18, 14 February 1924, Page 3

SUPPLIES OF METAL.

COUNTY REQUIREMENTS. Complaint of Shortage. Following the paragraph in his routine report stating that it was difficult to obtain sufficient supplies of metal for the county requirements, the county engineer, Mr. M. E. Fitzgerald, verbally explained at Friday’s meeting of the County Council that although the formation contract at the Putaruru end of the Tirau-Puta-l-uru road was to be finished on the Monday, he could not obtain sufficient metal supplies to start tbe metalling of this mile forthwith, despite the fact that the money, in, the form of loan and subsidy, was available for this metalling. The Te Aroha Borough had offered a supply of good broken metal of not less than 50 cubic yards per day, but he could use 300 cubic yards per day if be could get it. Metal was also wanted badly for another job at Waharoa for which there was a Government grant, and the fact that metal could not be obtained meant that these grants could not he expended by the end of the financial year, the time specified by the Public Works Department. The engineer further read lengthy reports on geological features in the Matamata County, and, at his suggestion, it was resolved to apply to the Mining Department for a geological survey of tbe county to ascertain where good metal could be obtained, etc. The reports stated that the cost of the survey would be about £1 per square mile, of which the Council should be required to pay no<more than half.