ROADING WORKS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 294, 27 August 1926, Page 12

ROADING WORKS

PROPOSALS UNDER CONSIDERATION. The city engineer (Mr. A. J. Paterson) reported to the District Highways Board yesterday as follows:— J "The representing engineer on the Main Highways Board has been interviewed re the paving of the mile and threeciuartcrs of the main East Coast, highway. Taita section. Plans and specifications arc now beinp: prepared for a proposal to pave 110 chains of this section of a minimum width of 15ft. where the roau formation will not allow of the 181 t. width of pavement central in tho road reservation as required by the Main Highways Board. The 15ft. width Is to be widened at a later date, when the widening of formation has been completed. and sufficiently consolidated to take the pavement. It is hoped to get the Main Highways Board’s approval, of this proposal and commence this paving work after the completion of tho mam road in the Petone Borough. "Preliminary surveys of the pronosed deviation fro”i Park Hoad. Lower Hutt, to the Day’s Bay foreshore road have been Completed, and it is proposed to submit plans to the board at an early date. . , “The plans dealing with the proposed improvements to the entrance at vil - Hams’ Park. Day’s Ray Road, opposite the ferry wharf, as submitted; to tho board at the last monthly inectbitr. have been forwarded to the Reserves Committee of the Citv Council. The Director of Parks and Reserves has been instructed to confer with the cit- engineer and the conntv engineer of the Hurt County Council in to the proposed improvements.”