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Life in Early Poverty Bay

Good Work By Road Boards

Good Work By Road Boards.

By 1900 Cook County, as it then was, had 90 miles of metalled roads, 180 miles of formed and drained roads and about 100 miles of half-formed roads and tracks. Scarcity of good metal was, of course, the big problem, the material used costing as much as 16/6 per yard and being inferior at that. As regards bridges, a handicap was the absence of serviceable timber within the settled portion of the county. Timber for that purpose, mostly kauri, had to be imported from Auckland. By 1900 the revenue of the county was £9,200 and the expenditure £10,200, and the indebtedness of the county was £25,000 for loans and £6000 by way of overdraft. What very appreciably helped in the development of the page 196 page 197 county was of course the formation of various road boards—Whataupoko formed in 1882, Poverty Bay (1884), Kaiti (1887), Ngatapa (1893), Taruheru (1897), Aroha (1898), as well as Patutahi (1879)), and Pouawa, which was formed in the 90's. None of the Road Boards are now in existence.

Cook County Council. Back Row: Chas. Gibson, J. E. Benson, E. H. Baker, F. S. Bowen. Middle Row: J. J. Keane (Engineer), G. Witters, J. Tombleson, C. Matthews (Chairman), W. C. MacLaurin. Third Row: M. T. B. Hall, and F. T. Robinson (Clerk). Absent: J. C. N. Thomas, M. L. Holden, W. G. Sherratt.

Cook County Council.
Back Row: Chas. Gibson, J. E. Benson, E. H. Baker, F. S. Bowen.
Middle Row: J. J. Keane (Engineer), G. Witters, J. Tombleson, C. Matthews (Chairman), W. C. MacLaurin.
Third Row: M. T. B. Hall, and F. T. Robinson (Clerk).
Absent: J. C. N. Thomas, M. L. Holden, W. G. Sherratt.