ROAD PAVING IN CANTERBURY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 18

ROAD PAVING IN CANTERBURY

The tender of British Pavement* (Canterbury), Ltd., has been accepted by the Main Highways Board for the reconstruction and two-coat bitumen sealing of the main highway between the Halswell Post Office -ind Tai Tapu. The contract includes the construction of a deviation a short distance beyond the Halswell Post Office, where there is a horseshoe bend in the existing road. The deviation will have a length of 22 chains, and will cut out 35 chains of the existing road, resulting in a saving of 13 chains. The total length of the section of the highway which is to be sealed is five miles 30 chains, and when the work is completed there will do a paved road from the city to Tai Tapu, except for a short gap in Lincoln road, Addington. From the Addington Show Grounds to Asylum road the highway has been constructed in bituminous concrete, and from Asylum road to Halswell it has been constructad m two-course bituminous concrete The work of making the deviation and preparing the road for sealing will be put in hand immediately, but it is probable that the sealing will not be done until the spring. The applicaion of the second coat of bitumen to the stretch between the Ashley bridge and Leithfiold has been finished, and a tender will be let m a day or two for the single-coat seal* ing of the nine miles between Lei'> field and Waipara bridge.