ROADING BACKBLOCKS.
TONG APORUT U TO MANGAROA. " 1 WORK TO BE EXPEDITED. The following letter has been received by Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., from the Minister for Public Works (Hon. J. G. Coates): — “In further reply to your letter of April 3 last, and the representations made by you and Mr. Pigott, chairman of the Clifton County Council, when you waited upon me at Wellington on the sth inst. regarding the completion of the above roqd, I now have the honor to inform you that I have carefully investigated the whole position in regard to this road. “I find that this is a very important settlement road, and would be largely used especially for stock traffic between the King Country and Waitara freezing works and saleyards. It would also provide the shortest possible road from New Plymouth to tue town of Ohura, and would also make it possible to travel from New Plymouth to Taumarunui by road in five hours. “The work is also suitably situated for the purpose of providing relief •work for unemployed, and for this and the above reasons, I am agreeable to work being put in hand at relief rates of pay, and an authority for £lOOO is accordingly being issued to my department’s resident engineer.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1922, Page 7
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211ROADING BACKBLOCKS. Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1922, Page 7
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