MAIN HIGHWAYS BILL.

Shannon News, 14 August 1923, Page 5

MAIN HIGHWAYS BILL.

ARRANGING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES

At Saturday’s meeting of the Horowhqnua Coumiy Council, the following letter was received from the Main Highways Board, Wellington, re the grouping oi Horowheiiua and adjacent Counties into a Highway District:— We have to acknowledge the receipt of your iettqr 1 of the 23rd inst., and in reply to state that the suggestion tliat a conference should be held was made merely in connection with tne case oi a group where ail the counties, within the suggested group did not concur in the grouping, if they ail concur, then at this stage, there does not appear to bq ally necessity ior a conference. The replies from Counties are coming to hand very slowly, and so far as No. !) group is concerned replies havq been received as follows: —Kiwitea., oroua, Kairanga, Hutt and Makara concur in their grouping, but Iviwitea and Oroua suggest that thqre is not community of interest with Hutt and Makara. Manawatu does not reply as. to' whether it concurs in its own inclusion or not, but states there is little community of interest between the West Coast and Butt and Makara, and is also of opinion that it would bq better to. add.Rangitikei to the West Coast group when the lower counties, doubtless Hutt and Makara alre dfelteted. No reply has been received from Pohangina, and your own reply is just to hand. With referqnoe to your question as to who is to call a conference, the Board did not thinly it necessary to nominate any particular county, but relied on the counties themselves to agree that th© body most suitably situated should call thq conference, and the fact that a number of conferences are already being arranged ior is an indication that that idea has beien adopted in many cases. We 1 can arrange to call the conierencq if you particularly desire it, but would prefer that it was arranged amongst the counties themselves.'”

In rqference to the matter, the chairman, Gr. Monk, said that at last week’s Co unity Conference, be was v able to get the chairmen of the different counties interested, wifti the exception of Manawatu, together, and had no doubt that all of those present would agree to the proposed boundaries oi tile, district. Hi© might say in respqct to this Main Highways district that- the Bill- could not be, put in operation until these groups were agreed upon. It would be understood that sail the counties interested werq not in the same position as this: som e oi them would not have any mam highway according to the meaning of the Act., going through their territory, but lie could say that they all lookqd upon the matter in the right light, and would do all they could to get the Bill tlerough and the Boards in operation as soon as possible. t, 1 |