TAR-SEALING IN CITY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21858, 11 August 1936, Page 9

TAR-SEALING IN CITY

EXPENDITURE OP £4OOO

WORK APPROVED BY COUNCIL

The sum of £4OOO is included on the Cits” Council’s estimates this year for tar-sealing, and last night the council approved a list of streets on which work will be done. The list submitted to the council last night by its work committee was prepared with due consideration to the distribution of the work throughout the city, the traffic carrifl by the road, the sealing already done in the locality, the number of bouses in the streets, and to some extent the amount of rates paid. If Peterborough and Chester streets are done this year, it will complete the long streets inside the belts, although there are still a large numol smaller streets to be done. The streets on which work will be done are, subject to variation: —Peterborough street (Durham street to Barbadoes street), £190; Chester street (Park terrace to Latimer square surd Madras street to Fitzgerald avenue). £200; Bealey avenue (north side Barbadoes street to Fitzgerald avenue), £120; Belfast street (Colombo street to Manchester street), £6O; Fitzgerald street (Bealey avenue to Warrington street), £370; Francis avenue -(Warrington street to West-

minster street). £140; Halton street CPapanui road to St James’ terrace), £105; Perry street (Papanui road to Rayburn avenue), £9O; Canon street (Caledonian road to Fitzgerald street), £140; Courtenay street (St. Albans street to Westminster street), £6O; Harper street (Hazeldean road to Brougham street), £180; Hawdon street (Carlyle street to Brougham street), £140; Rogers street (Langdown street to Huxley street), ,£95; Croydon street (Huxley street to Southampton street), £7O; St. Martins road (Burnbrae street to Wilsons road), £120; St Martins road (Wilsons road to Prossers road), £6O; Osborne street (Ferry road to Lawrence street), £125; Slater street (North Avon road to Shirley road), £280; Warden street (Hills road to PStrle street). £110; Leighton street (Retreat road to Morris street), £140; Morris street (Leighton street west to river), £95; Wyon street (Worcester street to Buckley’s road). £110; Esses street (Fitzgerald avenue to Albert street). £80; St. Asaph street (Nursery road to Mathesons road), £3O; Hazeldean road (Antigua street to Lincoln road). £240; Hosewarne street (Selwyn street to Simeon street), £9O; Conway street (Barrington street to Lyttelton street). £190; Dunn street (Strickland street to Selwyn street), £95; Manning place, £45; Wildberry street, £2OO.