The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1918 A PROGRESSIVE MEASURE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 381, 7 June 1918, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1918 A PROGRESSIVE MEASURE

" We nothing extenuate, nor tet down auaht in malice.'*

It will be good news to the people of the Waiau and Karaka portion of the Mauku Riding that intimation has been received from the Public Trustee that the Franklin County Council's application for a loan of £27,000 tor metalling the roads in that district has been granted. Too long have the settlers in the locality in question laboured under disabilities that were deplorable, for with roads composed of clay it was a case of mtul everywhere in the winter and transport was almost an impossibility. To Mr J. Henry, the ex-member for the Riding, must be given the credit for formulating the scheme, which has been endorsed by his successor, Mr J. V S. Montgomerie, and will now be duly promulgated. Approximately thirty miles of road are to be dealt with, principally the main road from Waiau Pa to Drury, and by means of the two bridges recently erected at Karaka an outlet to Papakura and thence to Auckland will thus be available at all times of the year. Both Mr Henry and Mr Montgomerie have been aciive iu impressing upon the Council the urgent necessity of carrying out the proposed works and it is solely due to their persistence that the required official consent for the loan to be raised lias been secured. The money is to be available to the extent of /7(l00 in the first year ami f.Soou per annum for four successive years. At to day's meeting of the Franklin County Council the Clerk was instructed to take the necessary proceedings to have the loan legalised and this means that the ratepayers will be called upon at a loan poll to re-allirm the approval they 11 a\ :. pieviously given to the scheme both vet bally and at public meetings. That such consent will be readily and

gladly forthcoming is hard!/ op n to doubt and the fact I hat the

it:!: r: are prepared to accept ;m idded incubus of rates ran very

I>ro]»f11 In- rounded as testifying to tlirir < oiifidenee in the, flittito oi I lie ilistti'-i. Indeed lite •clioine mi be looked upon as probably the most important of it-, kind yt l luitnelied in l'latiklin Conn t v