HAURANGI ROAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1938, Page 7

HAURANGI ROAD

PROPOSED EXTENSION WORK. FEATHERSTON COUNTY VIEWS. “Your best plan is to get the department to legalise the road and hand it over to us and then our objections will be removed,” observed the chairman, Mr A. B. Martin, at yesterday’s meeting of the Featherston County Council, when a deputation asked the council to supervise the work of extending Haurangi Road. The deputation stated that the Employment Department had agreed to make available a full wages subsidy if the work of constructing the road were carried out by registered and eligible unemployed and if the council undertook the supervision. There was 60 or 70 chains to be constructed. Mr Martin said the council had no unemployed labour and even if it did it could not undertake the work as the road was on private property. That was the reason why the Public Works Department would not do the job. It would be of no advantage to the council to have the road legalised because it would not give access to any ratepayers. Councillor J. C. Bidwill: “We do not object to doing the work but we have to keep on side with the law." It was decided to advise the deputation to request the department to legalise the road and hand it over to the council when it would be possible then to undertake the work.