CITY IMPROVEMENT
PUTTING JERVOIS QUAY IN ORDER The city engineer has taken the centre of Jervois Quay road in liana, and is putting it in proper permanent order. A trench about 18ft. wide has been excavated over a foot deep between the tramway tracks and the wood-blocks (on the harbour side), end this is being given a solid basis of concrete ; on top of the concrete is being laia four inches of bitumfenised metal, compressed by a heavy roller, and on top of that again three inches of pure bitumen, spread at a temperature of 950 degrees, and rolled level at once, ft is hoped that this formation will withstand the heaviest of traffic, and will only need a re-coating or painting with bitumen every two or three years. The improvement to this important waterfront thoroughfare may be noticed already in the section completed between the entrance to the Queen’s Wharf and the intersection of Hunter Street.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 177, 14 April 1923, Page 6
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157CITY IMPROVEMENT Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 177, 14 April 1923, Page 6
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