THE NORTHERN HIGHWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 233, 2 October 1925, Page 6

THE NORTHERN HIGHWAY.

■ • ... FIRST SECTION OPEN FOR TRAFFIC. GOOD PROGRESS THROUGH NEW LYNN. The first section of the permanent! paving ujndjer the- northern highway scheme was opened for traffic this morning. This section, which extends from the city boundary at Oakley Creek through the Avondale borough to within a chain of the Whau Bridge, is two milea twenty-five chains in length, and waa completed a month ago. Since then the concrete has been ripening, and the new road is now available for traffic.

Good progress is being made by thi city engineering department with the second section of the main highway, stretching from the Whau Bridge to the New Lynn boundary. This piece is over three-quarters of a mile shorter than the completed portion, being only 117 chains long, and it is expected that ib will be finished and ready for use well before the summer. The city water main from the iWaitakeres crosses the road in this section at one or two points, and in order to obviate the necessity of breaking up the concrete roadway, if leakage or any other trouble is experienced with the main, manholes are being placed at all the pipe joints where it passes under the thoroughfare.

There is at present a short length o! roadway between the end of the existing city concrete work and the boundary at Oakley Creek" which has not yet been laid down in permanent material. This macadamised gap will very soon be filled up, however, as the Council has already a concrete laying gang at work upon it. The Great North Road deviation has also been put down in permanent paving, which is now maturing in readiness for traffic use.