TAKING UP STREETS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 74, 20 December 1933, Page 6

TAKING UP STREETS

Co-ordination Sought

By Telegraph.—Press Association,

Auckland, December 19.

The Post aud Telegraph Department is circularising local bodies with a suggestion that a public utilities committee be set up to co-ordinate activities involving street openings for any underground plant, such as water, gas. and sewer mains, electric cables, telephone ducts, and also the erection of power poles.

An arrangement such as that suggested by the Post and Telegraph Department. has held in Wellington for some years past. The City Engineer’s Department is* in touch with the various Government Departments, the Gas Company, and Harbour Board, and at intervals schemes' of proposed work are submitted aud arrangement's made whereby two or more necessary servicings: are made at the same time. Inevitably there are occasions when the scheme of co-ordination misses a step, but j complaints that roads and footpaths -are.nosooner down than they are taken np again are much less frequent than they were a few-years ago. It is in accordance with this idea of coordination that the City Council and Railways Department are at present working together for the provision of stormwater drainage from Lambton Quay, and the area of the new railway station.

Mr .John Anderson, a Glasgow holiday *mai: er at- Kinghorn, Fife, felt something solid between his bathing suit and his skin. He found that it was a sole, Weighing a pound.