NORTHCOTE CONCRETE ROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 107, 9 May 1927, Page 5

NORTHCOTE CONCRETE ROAD.

BETTER PROGRESS BEING MADE

Good progress has been made during the past week in connection with the paving in concrete of the main road at Northcote. The concrete has been laid for a width of IS feet in the centre of the road in Queen Street, between Clarence Street and the southern side of Denby gully. A gap of soriie 200 feet intervenes, and the concreting resumed on the northern side of Denby gully. This has advanced to opposite Belle Yue Avenue, and will be continued to the war memorial.

The report of the engineer on May 2 intimated that the general excavation from Clarence Street to the war memorial had been completed with the exception of portion of the western footpath between Vincent Road and Clarence Street. Some 4400 cubic yards of spoil had been removed and deposited in the Denby gully filling. Concreting was commenced on April 20. at a point near the Denby gully culvert, and had proceeded up hill towards Clarence Street, a total length of 779 feet having been laid. On the section below the Council Chambers, where the edge of the concrete overlapped on to a water pipe trench, additional reinforcement had been laid so as to strengthen the edge of the paving. The sub-grade course and side forms had been laid ready to complete the section from the Council Chambers to Clarence Street. Side forms and sub-grade work were in hand on the northern side above Denbv gully. Some 2950 feet of 9-inch and 280 fet of 6-inch storm water drains had been laid, seven manholes and three c-esspits completed and connected up. Pipe trenches had been consolidated and scoria spread. Between Rodney Road and Belle Vue Avenue the old 5-inch water main was found to be shallow, and a length of approximately 935 feet had been moved over and lowered. A total length of 760 feet of li-inch domestic main had also been laid on this section and the cross services to the 5-inch main cut off. Between Rodney Road and Clarence Street a length of SOft feet of new 6-incli main had been laid in the existing permanent footpath, and the corresponding length of old 5-inch main had been taken up, cleaned, painted and relaid. The whole of the roadway was therefore free of house connections. A timber core wall had been erected where the slip occurred on the eastern side of Queen Street, north of the Denby gully culvert. This had been properly anchored back to firm ground, and the contractors had been instructed to fill in on both sides of the wall as soon as possible.. At Denby gully a tunnel had been driven under Queen Street adjacent to the existing culvert, and a new twofeet concrete pipe culvert was now being laid. A length of 60 feet had been put in, and the tunnel back-filled and rammed over same.