BOARD REBUKES COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 609, 11 March 1929, Page 16

BOARD REBUKES COUNCIL

MUST KEEP ROADS IN BETTER ORDER WHANGAREI HIGHWAYS (Special to THE SUN) WHANGAREI,. To-day. The members of the Main Highways Board., after personally sampling a portion of the Whangarei County roads, are not satisfied with their condition. In the course of a letter received by the Whangarei County Council on Saturday evening, the board said: "When travelling south from Whangarei the board found the surface at Oakleigh to be in a bad condition. It appears to the board that your council is paying insufficient attention to the maintenance problem, and the board desires to place on record its disapproval of the maintenance methods of your council. The board desires your council to impress on its engineer the absolute necessity for the use of small metal and the grading of the roads at regular intervals. “Unless some considerable improvement is shown in the maintenance of the county roads at an early date the board will reluctantly be forced to consider the question of taking over those sections which do not receive proper attention, maintaining them itself and charging your council its proportion of the cost. Could you kindly advise early in the matter?” The chairman stated that he had instructed the engineer to submit a comprehensive report to the next meeting dealing with the cost of reconditioning- the highways in question.