Funds allocated for Pipiriki Road
•k\ total of $80,000 will be ent in the next year upgrading the road from Raetihi Borough to the Waipuna turn-off. The National Roads Board has made a special grant of $60,000 towards the work and under the 3:1 subsidy scheme the Waimarino County Council will contribute $20,000. The section of road was badly in need of repair according to County Clerk, Mrs Hope Vaughan and an application for the grant was made in September. "Money from rates is not enough to maintain roads and with heavy trucking traffic along them, extra funding was needed," said Mrs Vaughan. The money will be used for resurfacing, reconstruction and widening of the road.
"In the long term there isa major plan for improvement of the road through to Pipiriki which will cost over a million dollars by the time it is done," she said. "If the Wanganui River is made into a National Fark wearegoing.to need a better road and we hope the grant will be an on-rgoing thing," said Mrs Vaughan.
Pam
Graham
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1983, Page 1
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