CITY IMPROVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 8

CITY IMPROVEMENT

Oriental Bay Quarry

LAWNS AND ROCKERIES

That ancient and rather unkempt part of the Town Belt, known as the quarry site in Orieutai Bay, is being.cleaned up and set out in lawns and rockery garden plpts, which should provide a pleasing feature in Wellington’s'most popular proThe reclamation of that part of the harbour, from the old beach-line (roughly demarcated to-day by Wakefield Street) to the harbour' retaining wall, was effected almost entirely by means of spoil and rock removed from the quarry at Oriental Bay. For some vears it was a familiar signc to see “puffing billies” drawing a rake o£ ■trucks from the Bay along Clyde Quay, and across a trestle-work track to a pomt near the foot of Cuba Street (about where ♦he Central Fire Brigade station stands to-day), and having emptied their loads would rattle back again to.the Bay to repeat the performance, day after day, until what was known as the Te Aro reclamation was completed. Were the Harbour Board to take up reclamation work at the head of Evans .-Bay now instead of years henee,, it might prove to be the most valuable work for ths city’s coming generation 'yet offered performance under the provisions of tee No, 5 scheme.