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HEAVY ROAD TRAFFIC.

The Forty-Mile Bmh, Action of the Railway Com-

missioners.

In liia annual report to the Wairarapa North County Council yesterday, Mr 0, E. Bremner, Engineer, said ; A very serious tax has been put on the Forty-mile Bush seotionofthe Mastertou Riding duiing the year to support the trade of the local saw mills, the traffic of which had all but. demolished a considerable length of the main line. In one of the monthly reports the attention of the Council was drawn to the weak condition of the road brought about by this timber haulage, and the futility of attempting to make further repairs from the local gravel reserves was also pointed out, The fine gravel, such as is common in this vicinity, though it makes a nice smooth road for light driving, has no enduring qualities for heavy traffic, Communications were therefore opened with the Railway Commissioners with the view of procuring a supply of first class riverbed sliingle, and it is to he regretted that they failed to appreciate the duty to (bemselves as well as to the County in making every reasonable exchange with the Council towards improving this portion of the road where their interests are so largely concerned.' On the contrary, after much delay, full and heavy rates were oharged for getting or delivering the stone, amounting to £62 6s 8d for 820 0.y.,. which before it was fit for laying on the road cost en additional £72 for breaking and carting, and this to repair damages of mill traffic with the railway in which the ratepayers who pay the cost have little or no interest, . Intimate. relations. exist between the railway and the road, and.tti§.authorities shoukj be. farsighted enough to see ttjaV 'be wellfere of the railway is largely identified with the prosperity of the lands contiguous to the road lines whioh feed it, and should be disposed to aid all they oan in their improvements by affording, facilities . : m. "'Waling material at' a moderate cost,' If such short-Bightedness continues to obtain in the railway managementit.wiltput a stop to road improvement in.this locality, as good metal cannot be obtained except by rail.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4112, 13 May 1892, Page 2

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HEAVY ROAD TRAFFIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4112, 13 May 1892, Page 2

HEAVY ROAD TRAFFIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4112, 13 May 1892, Page 2

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