PAVING WORKS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 10

PAVING WORKS

HALF NGAHAURANGA GORGE COMPLETED PROGRESS AT GRAFTON ROAD With the burst of fine weather experienced this month, excellent progress has been made with the hot-mix naving programme for the season. The local Highways Board is only concerned this year with the Ngahauranga Gorge-Tawa Flat road paving, which is being done by contract bv Messrs. McKenzie and Duncan Bros., whose price was slightly under the city engineer’s estimate. After being handicapped by a fortnights bad weather, marked by cold and wet conditions, the elements have proved more kind, and very good progress has been made during the last three weeks. The paving work was commenced (in haltwidth sections) opposite the Ngahauranga quarry, and from that point the gang has worked up to Johnsonville, which was reached on Saturday. They will now commence on the flat on the Ngahauranga side, and work up hill to the quarry. With any sort of luck with the weather this length of road may be completed before the end of the year. In the city the corporation gang is still working up Grafton Road to Hataitai, which job will probably be completed early this week, effecting, an enormous improvement in the main avenue of traffic between Roseneath and Hataitai. Part of Featherston Street —for so long in a state of dis--ruption—should receive attention in the near future. This road carries the whole of the inward motor traffic from the Hutt Road, and the length of time during which it has been partially torn up now runs into months. The "works and tramways departments are both concerned, and it is suggested that an effort might be made to clean up this important thoroughfare—the main entrance to Wellington—before the Christmas holidays. . The Glasgow Street wall contract is almost completed, and a corporation gang is now employed making the necessary adjustments in the widened and regraded road. This entails a good deal of filling behind the new wall, and as it will be necessary to allow this earth to thoroughly consolidate under traffic and weather, it is not anticipated that the road will be paved this season. Glasgow Street will, however, be reopened for traffic by Christmas time.