REBUILDING SCHEME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 9

REBUILDING SCHEME.

OBJECT LESSON AT NAPIER. CATERPILLAR SCOOP AT WORKCOST REDUCED TO MINIMUM. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, this day. Nine adjoining properties with frontages on the seaward side of Hastings Street .are involved in a comprehensive demolition scheme which is being considered by their owners. The frontage which it is hoped to clear if the scheme is put into operation extends aloni Hastings Street a distance of over 100 yards and the majority of the properties extend through to Marine Parade, so that almost a complete block, extending from Emerson to Dickens Streets and bounded by Hastings Street and the Parade, will be cleared.

It is proposed that the work be done by the caterpillar scoop of Dredgers. Ltd., which has been brought to Napier from Meeanee, where it recently under took a large part of the work involve! in the extensive draining scheme which jrives protection from floods to over 200U acres of small farming land. The plant in the meantime is engaged in clearing a section on the opposite side of Hastings Street where Bryant's building stood. The clearance of this section has been undertaken by the town commissioners and the cost is to be repaid by the owners of the section over nn agreed term in order to provide property owners in general with an object icssop on how cheaply sections in the devastated area can be cleared.