QUESTION OF COST

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 32, 10 March 1930, Page 5

QUESTION OF COST

TAR SEALING OF PAKOWHAI ROAD. COUNTY'S ACTION ENDORSED. An explanation of the action the council has taken in regard to the sealing of the Pakowhai road was delivered at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council to-day by the chairman, Mr F. B. Logan. Mr Logan remarked that some ratepayers were exercised in their minds because the council, after stating that it preferred a liot-mix surface to a tar-seal coat, proceeded with the laying of a tarseal coat, although the TTighways Board declared that it had no objection to a hotmlx surfacing. In this regard the chairman stated : — 'Un connection with the bitumen surface of the Pakowhai road _ the Main Highways Board was willing that a liot mix surface should be put down, on condition that the Hawke's Bay County Council paid the differenc© between the cost of a sealed surface and a hot mix surface. "The three-coat sealed surface costs approximately £1600 a mile, of which the council's share would he £400. The hot mix surface costs approximately £4400 a mile, of which the council's share would be £3200 _or £2800 a mile niore than that which was decided on. "Under those conditions the council felt it was not advisable to put down a hot mix surface. "The cost wouhl have been too great," hQ remarked.