OPOTIKI AFFAIRS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 10

OPOTIKI AFFAIRS

A NEW ROUTE (From Our Own Cori’espondent.) Tenders are being invited by Public Works Department for tr.' construction of two miles 70 chains the Opo tiki-Mata wai Road Gisborne and Opotiki. This contra' when completed will enable the roa be opened for motor traffic, and it' considered that it will become pafi• the main highway, and shorten - distance between Opotiki and Gis Do • by about 10 miles, ma king th e 1 ; f ‘ mileage 87 instead of 97 miles a* * present. The scenery on the ro -- is said to be equally as good “ on the now well-known OpotllU' _ Road. The grades will also m easier. BAD FINANCIAL POSITION At the monthly meeting of the tiki County Council the chairman «*• the council’s attention to the ve *f “=r ; satisfactory state of the finances. He stated that the overdraft in 1925 was £3 ’ l7 *’.. p or i. it increased to £5,941, and at tn Usent time the overdraft was ’ • Such figures made it only too ap. that the financial position county must be very thoroughly s into. The position roust be iace«» he proposed to elect a specia . mittee to go into the question the next meeting of the counc • The county clerk stated that amount of rates outstanding the vicinity of £7,000, and co mostly Maori rates. --{nf 1 A special committee comp member from each riding w ** citioD . to investigate the financial po