PROPOSED NEW BRIDGE.
MATTER BEFORE COUNTY COUNCIL. ENGINEER’S SUGGESTION APPROVED.
A number of ratepayers of the Whataupoko and Waimata ridings wrote asking the Cook County Council 'recently to take such steps by loan or otherwise as were necessary to erect a bridge and complete the roads joining Slaughterhouse road with ' Kia Ora Factory road,'as this would be a direct line to the Matawhero saleyards, and a great convenience to travelling stock from the west for Messrs Nelson Bros, freezing works. The Engineer was instructed to inspect the site, and yesterday he reported as follows:
According .to instructions he liad : inspected and taken the necessary levels of a proposed road and bridge to connect in a most direct line the Sjaughterhouse road ,with the Kia Ora Factory road. He had also made surveys of a line to connect with the Kia O'ra Factory road with the Freezing Works road and the following are the results: —(1) Direct line to' the freezing works bridge and approaches lower site £495, fencing both sides of road (94 chains) £94, land required to be taken about. 4% acres. Distance from junction with Freezing Works road 47 chains; (2) Direct line to Slaughterhouse road bridge and approaches (upper site) £420, fencing required 46 chains £46, land required to be taken 3 acres. Distance from junction with Slaughterhouse road 16 chains. Ftom' the .junction with Kia Ora road to the freezing works would be 20 chains longer than via the previous line. He had given no estimate for formation or metalling, as the roads reported on were in grass (excepting a portion shown on the plan) and were suitable for light traffic or driving stock. The price of the land to be taken in either instance would have to be added to the above cost. It was decided .to adopt No. 2 proposition and to. approach the Government for a subsidy towards the bridge, and to ask Sir Jas. Carroll, the Hon. A. T. N<?atn. and Mr W. D. S. MacDonald, M.’sP. to support the application.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 9
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339PROPOSED NEW BRIDGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 9
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