HIGH AND DRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 150, 28 June 1927, Page 8

HIGH AND DRY.

HEW ROAD AT MERCIk.

IMPROVEMENT SCHEME

ADVANCING.

W.thm a short tune the cxperfeaa «rf ploughing through a flood when motori2 along the Great South Road at after a long wet spell in tie will be a thin? of the past, An e**tk filling is now stretching towards )U. townhip from the northward, aadttS 4.1 chains of narrow , oad vhen JJ one line of traffic could move with Z freedom in the pa«t, will be thirtv tJL wide when the work is completed. * Not only the road being widenM. but it will have a new level four fa* higher than at the present time. A» tha flooding seldom amounts to more lha» 2ft Gin. the road should have *. marri» of eighteen inches al,ove the swirS water, except in times of the wr*2 floods,

The Mercer work was begun at fl» end of March. A bill of almost fifty fart ts being levelled by pfcfc and dviianlta to supply sandstone filling, and the nr£ gress of the scheme, as a part of the Government's unemployment relief a*. tivitiea. has met w jti marked snooe«. It may be mentioned that the oonditk»» have favoured the work, and the WaikaU has not reached the flood level generally expected during the winter month*.