OPENING OF ROADS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 10, 9 December 1926, Page 6

OPENING OF ROADS

TO KEEP DOWN GRASS. COUNCILLORS DIVIDED. [Special to “Standard.”] FEILDING, Deo. 9. At yesterday’s meting of the, Oroua County Council Cr McLennan asked permission to open the roads in his riding (Rangitawa) as the grass was now becoming a nuisance on the roadside.

Considerable discussion upon the question ensued, the chairman (Cr A. Campbell) remarking that he thought the council was hardly justified, in these days of motor traffic, in doing such an action. The council.bad recently taken action against several offenders in this direction and, as far as he personally was concerned, he was strongly against such a proposal. Cr McLennan pointed out that the offences mentioned had been mostly stock wandering at night and on main highways, whereas the roads he referred to were rarely used for motor traffic.

Cr McDonald expressed himself as against the opening of the roads as several complaints on the matter from the township of Ashhurst had been laid before him.

It was finally decided that councillors could act independently in respect of the roads in their own ridings, provided the approval of the clerk was obtained before the road was opened. “So long as I’m in charge of the Taonui riding no roads in it will be opened,”- concluded the chairman.