ROAD WORKS IN COUNTY WAIPA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2138, 23 March 1886, Page 2

ROAD WORKS IN COUNTY WAIPA.

The Waipa County' Council have now fully begun the work" of metalling tho roads. The , contractors havo begun laying the gravel (such as it is) at the feet of the first hill coming from Kihikihi, so that the wbrsfc'* part of the road will be ready for printer traffic in a few week*. The flat on the Raneiaohia road, which ha« hitherto b/een so' bad In wot weather, has also had •omo attention, the worst spot having got gravel on to a width of twelve feet. • Mr Cumpstone has made a valuable discovery of a seam, of splendid gravel on his ffcrm. It lies in the gully between his property and that of Mr W. J, Bridgman. This gully has been the course of a larze rjiver at one time. Mr Cumpstone first noticed th« ffraval at the bottom of a ditch two yean* ago, but he had no idea of the extont of the deposit until he was sipking a hole, when he came upon it two feet six inches below the surface. For the take of seeing Something of the nature and extent of the seam he went down seven feet six inches deeper, and still was in the seam, and the deeper he went the better the quality of the metal for road purposes became, it befog «*nr»» and withou£«ay clay. Ho htA ft gni^ d«*l oj djffisulty m gottjq|

down that depth, owing to the flow of water into the hole, but he i» now »ati»fied that there u an unlimited quantity of it, and only a few chains from the road. If local bodied can come to terms with him there will no longer be any complaints of muddy roads. — (Own Correspondent.)