DIGGING UP OF ROADS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 7

DIGGING UP OF ROADS

Avonhead Residents’ Protests

“Christchurch is fast becoming a city of pot-holes, and the Waimairi county a pot-hole county,” said Mr H. G. Riches at a meeting of the Avonhead Residents’ Association recently. Members complained that no sooner had a road been restored after being dug up to install water-pipes than another local authority’s workmen dug the road up again to install telephone cables or gas mains. Mr Riches said that it was about time something was done to save the country thousands of pounds by having a dug-up area worked on by all the local ‘authorities which required work done in that area.

The secretary (Mr E. D. Kwok) was instructed to write to the Waimairi County Council informing it of the association’s views and requesting the council to use its authority to require contractors who are subdividing new blocks in the county to lay the necessary water and drainage pipes before the completion of road formations in the blocks. The Post Office will be requested to provide large display cards in public telephone booths showing the numbers of the police, fire brigade and ambulance, according to another motion passed at the meeting. “People in an emergency do not want to waste time looking up a number,” said Mr H. Gamer, the association’s vice-president.