MARINE DRIVE

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 19 September 1930, Page 13

MARINE DRIVE

BIG WORK ROAD ROU^D. : LYTTELTON iaAfeiciußi , , The formation ,of,a""marine SP-? Q f t(aa • .-Chatteris .Bay. to- '.Putad,''. with ./Access =. to the-top of 'Diamond spur, has commenced. ' The' new • road, will be. a complete deviation from' Um» " told route, and will follow,the eooptji." line, will extend for 4| utiles and -I®B steepest .grade will •be pno ,in whereas the present road-.possesses ■ ients of one in four "to one ia five. - A-camp has been established,at,'Dia* ■mond':Harbour, .and' another is :ko*r ia course of erection at i Puiauv It sible that >a jthird. "will be located, at •„ Charteris Bay. There are ftl; present 36 men on the job, including three icarpenters, and' during" the next 'wepTc 'or s<» many more are expected-" - to'^bejvgiven 1 work, provided sufficient- tentaccdnfmo^i■ ; dation has been'made available' In*' ttur' ' time: -i Provided the . supply of laTjoW ( ,18; maintained, the work" should be completed in eight ",or nine' montfif^ The present road round'the bays i# rough, in many parts- and' -there' are', ; very grades. When 4he'„»eWrpad is -finished there will a drive embracing almost every - of scenic beauty within-a'Hmitedf compass: 'ln fact, it Ms expected , s -to h®-, <S6me one-of ia&mpers* routeg t inJßaJit9rlwi3r*fi.»j-- r - ""TOielri^'iErbm^tjhe^l^ 'Bay p&piriai for'inwiyfyeariyj'.J: and- a]most*"©veiy,- fin^ceedxqg'''wtie&flnAv-' -tees l >a' ; larger number' o£ : *«aJ&'4oja;'jtha£{ road in fine weather. JJWorSi? aa*;thißi''' 1 ' portion is ' going"on- steadily' tile whole is'completed the^roacfwjlilra of conbiderable commeroii^-^-^^'^^ folders of .Purau l W :;j th§re will be" an excellent'*motor *■; road by this'' route'■£rdxtt|j*hd.'"City , " , i6'i'. "Akaroa.' , 1 1 * ';VCsV"i ' The -spork is beirig' doiteby(.^e.l^-X- \ Department, and mont of'the men, recruited from the married j, s are working ;.on 1 , cjcTative *Byst'em," l2 ■ mOTj" :to and are: paid accordiriggto tho\number * of square yards of . sp<m r *staovef£ wagfs average<from 14s the more experienced.. ~ \ ' , 71 - " k ~ J ' Ideal Oainp Siteifs ]-i\,^' r Tho work commenced on Tuesday last and yesterday, when a of The Press visited the scene,- tho»V< were 16 men in camp>«at''Paraii t i a gang was engaged in the 30 tents. 'The location is and water and. firewood- are The site of 1 the camp ia.'ideaL 'lt ; the pr9perty of /Mr known runholder, and I 'within yards of the sea.'' Bathing will be forrthe s rriea>in ihfeir.v* Bpare time;' indeed,*- one -or;' more hardy- have introduced Hie': j morning dip."- u \ At t Diamond Harbour tents, each accopnnodattng. tn;o^ v inen// Tliis, also, is in an Ideal rituatiojo* the midßt of a large 'Clmnp,pi jpip&s. Beautiful . Betweeu the "Takahe|Vaad tho road-is'.being widened and •by-a-gang 0 f about 20 th«'.. between the .ffESwiV •nor's 1 Bay is being From -.Charteris Bay onwards, where wattle is-in full bloom, the present-, road is fairly good-but the steep. . \ ' Ti. The .view is excellent. A < t'es&f; • panse of -water, rippling iuends at the Lyttelton wharves, - the bustle of' shipinpg is plainly evx-i ' dent. Proceeding over the brow of the hill tho road winds through clumps,of bluegnms and pines seaward aide;-;, and tussock land on otherC 'Purther on tlie road goes' the>'" sea and by this time one has a viewf 'from all angles, of Quail' Islasd/ onco a leper -station. Many are passed on the left dßxaps c£ golden wattle on tha here and,, there, in spots clomps of * daffodils present' 9 pretty sight.' Sea and landscape..' Another descent, followed not far above ,tho. water - line,} gives an even better - view of Lyttelton. 'Here ' the road is rough , and . steep. Os the ' left is a long gully,.full" ofr scrub, a stream rushing?down'«to iie- sea. ■ The; full length;, offlayttelton Harboqr.itejct^> comes . mto view and the sea stretched out as far as. the eye can see. -There.i& ; - "desceut' r 'irito Puiau, 2St from the City, which can be ne^oti2tts4> : ,- only by, experienced drivers id #at weathcr,< and the Sort' Levy road branches off from'thet Christ church" road. descent will, become^ "with the completion 'thfl 1 Heavy ..rain clouds 1 yesterday,'but .it

■ agine'the beauty'pf ; it;is completed. .