WORSER BAY ROAD

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 273, 13 August 1932, Page 13

WORSER BAY ROAD

Some Needed Improvements OLD PILOT STATION SITE Some improvements are to be made at the foot of Awa Road in Worser Bay. Where this road joins the main road the property on both sides belongs to the Wellington Harbour Board, being the properties connected with the old pilot station. In earlier days the pilots and boats’ crews resided at Worser Bay, ready to put to sea on a vessel signalling for a pilot. The message requesting a pilot was conveyed from the outer signal station to the look-out at Worser Bay by flag signals. There is a picturesque little hillock of rock in a reserve at the junction of Awa Road and the main road, where formerly stood a flagstaff—only a minute’s walk from the pilot boatshed on the beach. This corner makes a bad turn on a narrow road, and Improvements there have been held back Owing to the dual control of the City Council and the Harbour Beard. Some time ago the Harbour Board handed over the control of this reserve to the City Council, but little has been done so far in the way of improvement on that side of the road, while a fair sum has been spent on the other. It is now proposed to carry out some road-widening and cor-ner-easing at that point. This work will result in a double benefit, as it will make the road safer and the spoil will be used as an overlay on the sand at the northern extremity of the buy. There is a quarter of a mile of roadway at Worser Bay which calls for widening—a work probably more urgent than many others on which relief workers are employed in the district. The zig-zag track from Karaka Bay to Miramar is also badly in need of repair.