NORTHCOTE MAIN ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 3

NORTHCOTE MAIN ROADS.

EXTENSION OF CONCRETE PAVING. HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY TO DECIDE. In connection -with a scheme submitted to the Xo. 1 District Highways Council for the concrete paving of Onewa Road and Lake Koad to the resj>ectivc western and Northern boundaries of the Northcote borough, the engineer, Mr. .A. Greville Walker last evening intimated to the Borough Council that he had accompanied Mr. J. M Ennis, Public Works Engineer and chairman of the No. 1 District Council, on a visit of inspection of both roads. The whole scope of the proposals had been discussed in detail, and the suggested straightening of the Lake Road was ravourabK commented upon. It was agreed that the bridge near the Takapuna riding boundary would require to be reconstructed, £840 being added to the estimated cost t-o provide for this. The council's scheme was to be considered at this week's meeting of the No. 1 High..ays Council, which would be opened to-morrow at Whangarei. If this body approved the proposals, they would be referred to the Main Highways B«_. d at Wellington for final consideration. The Mayor (Mr. A. E. Greenslade) said the ©sti -ated cos: mcreting Lake Road, a length of 105 chains, had thus been raised to £20,070, which, together with the cost of concreting Onewa Road for a distance of 45 chains, £7200, and the provisi- of £1000 for a new six-inch water main for the latter road, brought the total propo :d expenditure to £28,270. Pro- ided substantial financial assistance was i<: incoming as the result of the rec<->:-imendations of th# Main Highways Board, the Borough Council was pledged to place i.'.& proposals as a loan proposal to a poll of ratepayers, which would be asked to sanction the borrowing of the money for the expeditious pros cution of the works. The width of concrete carriage-way in each thoroughfare would be eighteen feet, with water-bound macadam shoulders, six feet wide in ■- . .jo, v aewa Road, and four feet wide along Lake Road.