PUSHING AHEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 8

PUSHING AHEAD.

CITY COUNCIL RELIEF WORKS. OVER 150 MEN ENGAGED. OPERATING AT FIVE POINTS. A total of 157 men were engaged today on works which are being carried out by the City Council. "We now have the worK on the waterfront well under way," the acting-City Engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, stated. Operations have been commenced from the St. Helier's Bay end, and 36 men are at work. We are cutting streets in the vicinity of the waterfront road in order to obtain filling. In the one operation we are thus reducing these streets to their permanent levels and obtaining filling without having to acquire private land on Goyver's Point." On the Western Springs stadium 51 men are at work on the making of a cinder track, the building of entrance gates, offices and conveniences and making the road approaches, one from the Old Mill Road and the other from the Great North Road. In addition to ploughs and scoops reremoving top soil 16 men were employed in front of the War Memorial Museum levelling a rise in the ground which obscured the view of the building from the main drive. Nineteen men were at work on the extension of Gladstone Road-, and out at Lake St. John 35 men were engaged on the formation of the grand drive which is to encircle the lake. 'We are pushing on with all of these works," said Mr. Tyler, "and employing all the men whose services can be used on the undertakings."