MANUREWA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 223, 3 November 1916, Page 3

MANUREWA.

(See also Page 1). CLOSING WEYMOUTH ROAD.

The public protest against the closing by the Railway Department of the Weymouth Road at the point where it crossed the existing railway track at Manurewa was advanced another stage on Tuesday when a deputation of local residents, including Mr T. J. Corin and other members of the Town Board, accompanied by Mr H. E. Pacey, Managing Director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, waited on the district railway engineer,*Mr D. T. Mcintosh to urge local dissatisfaction with the step taken by the Department. It was pointed out to Mr Mcintosh that the closing of the road meant tint supplies of milk from the Wey,mouth side of the line going to the creamery that immediately adjoined the line on the opposite side now had to be conveyed by a roundabout and lengthy route by way of the station. It was urged that the road in question had been open fcr about forty years and that to close it, as proposed, would curtail the means of communication considerably and increase the distance traversed in reaching the creamery by about half a mile. It was asked that in order to keep the road open the Department should build a bridge near the railway station, or contribute to the cost of such bridge. Reference was made to the cgreement arrived at about eighteen months ago between the Railway Department and the Manukau County Council and the Manurewa" Road Board, under which the Department was now erecting a bridge on the Station Road, and closing the Weymouth Road. The deputation stated that this agreement had been made without the ratepayers being consulted. Mr Mcintosh stated that the Department already was building a bridge on the Station Road, in accordance with the arrangement with the local bodies. A second bridge, which would be barely ten chains away, could not be built unless the residents paid the cost of it. He stated, however, that he would forward the deputation's representations to the head office of the Department.