ROADS IN THE WAIMARINO

Taihape Daily Times, 16 June 1919, Page 5

ROADS IN THE WAIMARINO

4 RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE “ _ CENTRES. A‘-question of importance to Waimarino as well as Wanganui was discussed by the, Wglnga.nui County Council recently, wllenj it ,wa.<:;..' . that the Waimarino County Council, Raetihi and Wanganui Chambers of Commerce, and Wanganui Borough Council, should combine with the Wanganui County, and send delegates to interview the Minister for Public Works to ask for a large sum to nq granted to conmletr~ HH‘ 3*Road, giving the Waimarino_settlers- a Southern outlet. Mr. Robinson said the terminal towns had a responsibility in this matter, and he thought that the borough council and thy Raetihi Town Board-should contribute to the cost of making the road. {He said that there was £4,000 available for the construction of the road. There were 20 chains of road unmetalled in the Wanganui County_ Mr. Neilson said that the townspeople did not seem to realise the importance of constructing arterial roads into the centre of the county. one went nine miles into the county. and there the road ended with a quarterof a million acres» behind it, The valume of trafiic in Wanganui was small compared with what would come in with a better system of roads. Smaller centres were pushing out roads to draw trafiic into their centres._ The motion was carried.