MANUKAU ROAD PAVING.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 281, 26 November 1919, Page 7

MANUKAU ROAD PAVING.

A GAP IN THE WORK. • PROGRESS RETARDED. : Steady progress is being made -with the concrete paving of Manukau Road and the work should soon be completed as far as the Newmarket boundary. A regrettablft position arises at this stage. Both Newmarket and One-tree Hill failed to carry the loan proposal for the concrete paving of the road through their respective districts, while both the Mount Boskill Road Board and the Onehunga Borough Council carried the proposal. As matters stand, therefore, there will be a gap in the work through Newmarket as far as what used to be known as the Junction Hotel, that is, where the Great South Road connects with Manukau Road, from which point the City Council has authority to proceed with the work, so far as the right hand side of the road is concerned, and can continue it on that j side to Royal Oak, whence it can be completed for the full width through Onehunga. %Yhether, in view of the fact that the One-tree Hill Road Board -will not proceed with the work on the other half of the road through its district, the City Council -will do its half -while the other half remains undone is a question that has yet to be decided. Certain it is that the need of the work 13 ■urgent. The road as rough and uneven. In the hot weather it is one of the dustiest in the jCity, and in the wet weather one of the muddiest.