Expenditure By No. 14 Roads Council

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30115, 26 April 1963, Page 14

Expenditure By No. 14 Roads Council

A total expenditure of £1,807,038 on subsidised reading programmes for the 21 local authorities in the No. 14 District Roads Council’s area w®s recommended by the council for the current financial year. Approval from the National Roads Board, which will contribute £891,057 in subsidies and grants, is expected next month.

More than one-third of this is allocated to the Christchurch City Council which in the current financial year plans to spend £ 140,000 on the maintenance of roads and bridges. £92,000 on resealing. £116.368 on improvements, and £52,000 on street lighting. Projects listed include renewing the bridge on Opawa road at a cost of £33.000, another in Whitfield street for £3OOO and one in Beckford road for £4OOO. Details for major improvement were Ascot street, £6000; part of Oxford terrace, £8000; and Smith and Fleete streets each to the value of £5500. Waimairi has the next largest allocation of £184,966.

followed by Ellesmere, which will receive £116,180. Of this £42.000 has been allotted for the Ellesmere Bridge, the total cost of which is estimated at £72,000.

Akaroa County is allocated £60.350; Ashley £27,500; Chatham Islands, £9650; Eyre, £33,630; Baisweil. £32,292; Heathcote. £57.897; Kowai. £48,596; Malvern, £61,356; Mount Herbert. £24,100; Oxford, £45,970; Paparua, £85,700; Rangiora. £39,767; Tawera, £18,050; Wairewa, £ 19.966; Kaiapoi borough, £16,100; Lyttelton borough. £21,032: Rangiora borough, £ 16.800; and Riccarton borough, £30.800. An estimated expenditure of £435,000 by the National Roads Board on state highways in the No. 14 district was passed by the council. On state highway 1, £262.560 is the estimated expenditure for the current financial year, £30,810 of this being for maintenance. State highway 72 has been allocated £51,500, of which £9125 will be on maintenance. Expenditure on state highways 73 and 75 will be £85.050 and £35.890 respectively. On state highway 73 more then half the total amount will be foe maintenance. About £18,500 of the total sum is detailed for maintenance on state highway 75.

A total of £135,000 is set aside for northern motorway construction for the year. In the urban area the National Roads Board will spend £6OOO on bridge approaches in Fitzgerald avenue; £ 10.000 on the Moorhouse avenue underpass which will cost a total of £150.000; £12.500 on channelling in Riccarton road: £17,000 on medians and lighting in Blenheim road; and £lB.OOO on construction in Antigua and Selwyn streets. Other items bring the total for urban construction to £95,500.