Through Feilding Highway Proposal

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7079, 11 February 1933, Page 3

Through Feilding Highway Proposal

THE CATHERINE ST. PETITION

OFFER OF £202 TO BOROUGH COUNCIL

The following is the petition dealing with the proposal to construct a now street in Feilding as part of a major scheme to build a through Feilding main highway, which was presented under cover of a letter from the Chamber of Commerce to Thursday’s meeting of the Feilding Borough Council:— “1. We, the undersigned ratepayers and nearby residents of Feilding, believe that the development of the proposed Feilding-Bulls road is vital to the future prosperity of the Borough of Feilding. "2. The proposal will, we believe, ultimately result in a highway (already complete and bitumeni'sed to a considerable extent) from the Manawatu Gorge to the great western highway at Bulls, live miles shorter than the existing Sanson-Palmcrston North route. It has already received favourable consideration from the Manawatu County Council, on whom tlio bulk of the cost of road construction must fall. . "3. Feilding’s share of the improvement of the proposed road is relatively small and con'sists of the construction of a short deviation from Warwick street to the borough boundary in Sandon road. The question of a bridge at the Rangitikei river cannot arise for a number of years. Feilding’s position is, however, the initial step, and no other public body will, or can be expected to, move until this initial step is undertaken. “4. In addition to the deviation being of primary importance to the larger scheme, it is, in itself, a long overdue improvement to the town’s western acce'ss, and its construction in providing a useful absorption of the borough unemployed, is amply justified.

“5. The proposed deviation has been recently approved by all the members of the Borough Council who spoke on the subject, i.e., the majority of the Borough Council, but on the ground of lack of finance it was indefinitely postponed by the council by five votes to four.

”6. In earnest of our faith in the value to Feilding of the proposed deviation, which we believe will ultimately benefit every property in the borough, we are severally willing to subscribe the amount's appearing opposite our respective names. It will be observed that tlic total of these amounts is a sum which will cover the submitted cost of Feilding’s sharo of the road construction.

“7. The conditions attaching to this offer are: (a) Before the respective amounts hereunder appearing are called up tlio deviation work shall bo completed and accounts in connection therewith certified to by the Borough Engineer; (b) that the name of the deviation street shall be Catherine street. (To effect this all that is required, apart from formal steps, is, as was stated by the Mayor at the council meeting referred to, an amendment to an existing resolution.) ‘‘B. We strongly recommend to the council the acceptance of the valuable offers now made, which those of us who are ratepayers have every right to make, and which should obviate any financial scruples on the part of the council.

‘‘The names of those subscribing to the petition and the respective amounts are as follow: —R. M. Watson, S.M., £SO; D. W. Reid, H. Mclntyre, J. Graham, W. Rayworth, J. W. Bramwcll, D. P. Buchanan, J. S. Tingey, J. Darragh, Hon. J. G. Cobbe and C. Hausmann, each £10; Dr. Phillips, E. H. Brewer, and A. J. Kellow, each £5; F. Mason, £3; E. Goodbehcre, W. T. Hook, A. E. Winton, W. Berry, A. Kingston, V. E. Smith, W. E. Carthcw, G. Bartholomew, S. A. Parkes, G. Buckman, R. H. Buchanan, E. and T. Taylor and Son, Feilding Sash and Door Co., Ltd., Central Garage, Ltd., John Cobbe and Co., Aitken and Evans, Wm. Bramwell, Ltd., all £2 each, making a total of £202. At next month’s meeting of the Borough Council the subject will be finalised. Meanwhile a search is being made for the resolution which is stated to have laid down that all new streets constructed within the borough shall bo named after ex-mayors.