BETTER ROADS WANTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 11

BETTER ROADS WANTED

£20.600 INVOLVED IN MT. ROSKILL SUBSIDY POSSIBLE The ratepayers of Mount Ro ski II having rejected a loan proposal for concreting Mount Albert main highway. the board’s engineer subsequent!v proposed to tar-seal this road out of revenue, at a cost of £3.600.*At Last evening’s board meeting a letter was received from the District Highways Council notifying that th< Main Highways Board was prepared to consider the payment of a £2 for £1 subsidy toward the cost of sealing. At the same time it doubted whether this process would prove satisfactory on a scoria road, as this one was. without a, heavy expenditure on building it up. This year’s hospital levy has mounted up from £2.661 last year to £ 2,929, an increase of £ 268. The clerk reported that no objections had been received to the board’s proposal to apply to the Local Bodies Loan Board for permission to raise a loan of £17.000 for concreting the surface of. and laying water mains in. Three Kings Road, in anticipation of tramway extensions. Formal application to the Loans Board is to he made forthwith. EQUITABLE CHARGE A protest by the Drainlayers’ Association against the annual licence fee of £1 was not upheld, the board deciding that the fee is an equitable charge and should be retained. On the recommendation of the Finance Committee it was decided to remove a wooden bridge in White Swan Road and substitute a concrete culvert, to cost £ 85. The timber of the bridge is to be used to form m similar structure at Waikowhai Park, to give access to the beach. The board’s engineer, Mr. John Dawson, reported that the wester® area drainage contractors were making good headway, and the work was proceeding satisfactorily: also that th** work of cutting down the intersection of Buckland Road and Mount Albert Road, preparatory to tar-seaJing the former, was making good progress. Messrs. E. A. Pearce and R. W. Sanft were appointed a sub-committee to act with the board’s engineer to go into the question with the Transport Board of assessing the damage done to the footpaths in Dominion Road when the work of the tramway extension was being carried out there.