MASSEY ROAD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 228, 27 June 1928, Page 10

MASSEY ROAD

NEW HIGHWAY ON MIRAMAR PENINSULA

Observant people who have been in the vicinity of Evans Bay during the past few weeks will probably have noticed the beginnings of a new road leading from the prison reserve at Mt. Crawford (Miramar North) along the side of the ridge toward the cutting near the Miramar Wharf. It will be known to many that the present access road to the prison reserve is a very narrow, long, and tortuous one —one of the worst in the Wellington district over its upper stretch—and a new road to take its place has been desired by the Department for some time past. The new road—which Cabinet has decided shall be named Massey Road (after the late Prime Minister)—will provide the new and greatly improved means of access. Commencing from the southern end of the Mt. Crawford prison reserve it runs in a gentle grade down the Evans Bay side of the ridge, for a distance along tlie top of the ridge, and then down the Miramar flat' side of the hill until it junctions with Maupuia Street. For one-third of its distance Massey Road will have a grade of one in seventeen; for another third one in twenty-one, whilst the remaining third will be level. For part of the distance the road will run through the Townsend Estate, the executors of which are contributing to the cost of the road which is being formed with prison labour. It should be stated that Mauptjia Street (into which the new road leads) is the first street running northwards after one passes through the cutting into Miramar Avenue, being the first turning to the left from the Avenue.

Tlie new road will not only make a new and well-graded means of access to the Government properties, but will open up a lot of land on the hillsides to the west of the peninsular and overlooking Evans Bay.