PETONE SEA WALL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 288, 1 September 1931, Page 5

PETONE SEA WALL

When Will it be Built? Recently the Petone Beautifying Society offered to donate, £75, provided the Borough Council would subsidise it by £- for £l, for the purpose of raising the seawall from Cuba Street to Victoria Street. It was the purpose of the society to provide Work for men under the No. 5 scheme, and also to enable ornamental lights to be placed along the wall. Councillor R. W. Toomath at last night s meeting of the council .amended the proposal from a subsidy of £2 to £1 to a subsidy of £1 for £l, so that the work could be proceeded with as soon as possible. He suggested also that lu next year’s estimates the couucil should allocate a sum sufficient to enable the work to be completed, and, if posible, extended to Jessie Street. The work, said Councillor Toomath, would bo one of utility _as well as ornamental. He moved that £75 be obtained from the contingency fund for the work to be carried out this year, And that next year further sums be p.aved on the estimates to complete the worn. The motion was seconded. Sever-il councillors objected to liie proposal, either because it wou 1 1 not be a work of utility or because there was no certainty as to how the wor*. would have to be continued next year. It was also pointed out that people at the eastern-end of the beach, who had already complained at the way the foreshore there had been neglected, would have further cause for complaint. ' In replying to objections, Councillor Toomath said that although the cost in material for the whole work might be £-150, tho cost in labour would amount to about £l5OO. It would be seeu, therefore, that the w’ork would give employment to quite a number of meu. The number of deputations to the council concerning beach Improvements was a sufficient argument for the work to be proceeded with tills year. He did-not think there need be any doubt but that some such scheme as the present No. 5 scheme would be in operation next 'year and the year after that To expend money on a second Koro-Koro Road would merely benefit property owners. Improvements on the beach would benefit everybody, as there was no more popular resort than the beach in summer time. The council then went into committee to consider the question of finances.