CONCRETE WANTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 10

CONCRETE WANTED

GREAT SOUTH ROAD THROUGH FRANKLIN MOTORISTS VISIT COUNCIL Special to THE SUN PUKEKOHE, "Wednesday. Urging that the Franklin County's portion of the Great South Road should be concreted, a deputation from the Auckland Automobile Association waited on the Franklin County Council yesterday. Mr. A. Grayson, president of the association said they hoped to convince the council that it was in the interests of all for the council to accept the Main Highways Board’s offer of £3 for £1 for concreting the road. A good road would have a beneficial effect on adjacent property, and would materially improve the position so far as the transoprt of produce was concerned. Though a large amount of outside traffic would use the road, the county had a duty toward the general public, said Mr. Grayson, and motorists would contribute 75 per cent, of the cost. It was calculated that with the present increasing cost of maintenance the interest and sinking fund charges on a concrete road would not exceed the cost of maintaining a gravel road hy more than £22 a year, and in - f years the loan would have been paic off. The road should then be still ii. good order. The county chairman, Mr. J. N. Massey, M.P., said that ilie council would be pleased to consider the deputation’* lepresentations. He* quoted figures tj show the increase in. the rates in th« county during the last five years and pointed out that the present position of the council in regard to tte receipt of revenue from rates was urfavourable compared with what it wr.s at this time last year. The juestlfn of the Great South Road proposals had been left in his hands as cou **J chairman to confer further with tlic Main Highways Board with a view to coming to an arrangement tha. would be acceptable to the ccunty.