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TELEPHONE VERSUS ROAD.

■'■ THE L RL TJ JJOtJ. The delay in erecting the new telephone line to Okan has given rise to an awkward .bitualion. The contract for (urting the polea has ju*t been let, and (he road is noi in a lit .state to stand the traMie. The matter tank- before the I'lifUm Council on Friday. In a letter written from I'renui, -Mr. A. (i. Crawford. mail contractor, asked if there was any possibility of getting anything done to the Mimi-.Mokau road below iMurlev'.-.

- - "the continuation of the old bog, aud ihe new <>ne to be." There were now a couple of holes axle-deep, and alter the iu-xt rain the road would be nearly impassable. lie aUo wished to know if it were true that the Council was going to allow bullock drays to cart pole* for the Okan telephone line, lie would like to know il this were so. in order that he might at once get pack-saddles and a canoe with which to convey the mails. Mullock drays, he added, were not allowed on roads beyond the Mokau after Ihl Ma v.

Tin' chairman sais! thai Mr. ('rawlord, in Iris humorous and sarcastic manner, h'ld called L'.t 1 ;'iili"i) to what was going to 110 a serious Ir.mlde during this winter. Tlii' Council liai) been unfortunate in hiving liad two contractors who had deelinad to proceed with the work, The pro-'ent contractors, .Messrs. Tarty ami ( 'ar! wrighi. were progressing satisfactorily now. and the diMicultics of getting gravel had been overcome. They had boon unfortunate, too, in that a flood had washed away part of the mad. That had since been made up with a foot of clay, a course which did not meet with his approval, lie was not prepared to renew the plan of fascoening the boggy part of the road. Mr. doll said a good side-road could be cut to give relief to the main road. Mr. Foreman repealed that Ik; was dead against any more fasceening. Mr Joll: So am It's throwing money away, ibis side-road could be made l> t v a couple of men in n day. A similar course might be adopted at Mr. (icorge's -lupp's, where the road was very rotten, and just about impassable for dray traffic. A road might be obtained through Mr. Waite's. The clay road had been placed on flic road with his concurrence, and had there been but a couple of weeks' line weather it would have solidified Ml right. In regard to the carting of telegraph poles,* the chairman said lie had ascertained that the Department lmd invited tenders some months ago for carting these, and the tenders had only been accepted recently. Mr. Mackenzie said it would pay the people to do without the telephone for a few months in order to save the road.

Mr. Wright said that the poles were to be taken to Urenui by horse teams, and then sent on by Inillock waggons. It would ''play the' dickens" with the road.

Mr. .Toll said the benefit of the telephone would lie move tlmu counteracted by the blocking of the road. The (iovernnieiit didn't allow anything of the kind oil its own roads, and should not authorise it on a country road.

It was decided to telegraph a protest against the carting of these poles, oil account of the damage that must be done to the road.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 May 1907, Page 4

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TELEPHONE VERSUS ROAD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 May 1907, Page 4

TELEPHONE VERSUS ROAD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 May 1907, Page 4

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