Merivale Lane
Sir,—Many will be grateful to you and your correspondent for getting the authorities to do something at last about the footpath in the narrow (east) end of this street. Could you ask the City Engineer if and when he is likely to have anything done about its surface? This has been in a decrepit condition for a long time. In my 30 years or more in Merivale lane 1 must have paid a lot more in rates myself than the council has spent on our footpath. With its poor light, encroaching fences, clumsy outsize power poles, overhanging brushwood, broken edges, and surface potholes, it is a reproach to the city. —Yours, etc., GEORGE JOBBERNS. September 15, 1966. [The City Engineer (Mr P. G. Scoular) replies: “The footpath in Merivale lane between Papanui road and Winchester street was last resealed in 1963 and is in reasonable condition. A recent service utility opening in this section of Merivale lane has yet to be reinstated.”]
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31177, 29 September 1966, Page 12
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164Merivale Lane Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31177, 29 September 1966, Page 12
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