Bulldozer Will Be Used in Repair Of Collapsed Drive

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1942, Page 6

Bulldozer Will Be Used in Repair Of Collapsed Drive

i The task of putting in a culvert and filling in the collapsed water drive on Cross Road in the north riding of tne Stratford county will be commenced on Monday. With the aid of a bulldozer it is expected that the work will be completed in one day, causing the minimum inconvenience to settlers. Shortly after the recent earthquakes , part of the roof of the largest of the three drives, which carry a stream under Cross Road, fell in, ieaving only a few feet of earth below the road surface. As the road was thereby made unsafe, particularly for heavy traffic such as cream and milk lorries, arivers used it at their own risk. „ The clerk, Mr. C. J. L. Campbell, reported to the Stratford County Council yesterday that plans had been drawn to erect a culvert farther along the road where it dropped to the stream level, and to divert the stream from the drives to I the culvert. The drives would then be filled in. He had obtained a bulldozer to do the work, and it was considered that the method would be a great saving in expense and, more important, in time. It was proposed to ask cream lorrxes to return from their factory runs as early as possible on Monday morning. The road would then be closed, and it was expected that the repair job would be sufficiently far advanced to permit traffic on the next runs. Were this course not adopted the settlers at the end of Cross Road would otherwise be isolated. The council approved the plans for the repair work and the hire of the bulldozer.