HAMILTON NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 563, 16 January 1929, Page 5

HAMILTON NOTES

Evidence of the enormous traffic on the Hamilton-Rotorua highway and other main arterial routes out of the Waikato during the holidays is given in the report of the county engineer, Mr. A. A. Woodward, and adopted at the monthly meeting of the Waikato County Council i yesterday. Air. Woodward stated that bad places had shown in many of the highways, I but repairs had all been effected. I Graders had been employed and fresh | metal distributed. j Pears that the Hamilton-Cambridge j highway would become a speeding track | as soon as the tar-sealing is completed were expressed by the engineer. He I recommended the appointment of a per- | manent traffic inspector. A request to convert the. Maramarua „rea into a new riding in place of Wlia- ! ngamarino 'Hiding, which they consid- ; ered was unworkable, was made by sev- | eral Mangatangi and Kopuku settlers. Mr. W. Newell said the valuation was I too low to • warrant the constitution of j a new riding. ! It was resolved to reply that the council could not entertain the proposal on ! this condition. j The tender of Mr. M. R. Watt, at £1,200. was accepted for the construction of an embankment on the Rangi-riri-Churchill Road to prevent the flooding of Hie Waikato River on farm lands. The tender was accepted subject to the ! engineer's approval.