RUBBISH TIPS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 3

RUBBISH TIPS

Search For New Sites In Wellington BRADFORD SYSTEM Members of the reserves committee of the Wellington City Council yesterday inspected possible sites for controlled rubbish tips. Two or three years will see both Chaytor Street and Seatoun tips filled; but it is ipt intended to wait for that time to establish new ones. The essence of economic tipping, in the Bradford way, is to have tips in the most convenient places to the population, in order to prevent expensive haulage and waste of time. Wellington South is the locality mostly in need of rubbish tips. The first place visited yesterday was a little gully in Stoke Street, Wellington South, on the near edge of the Town Belt. This is a small depression to the west of the road, and is handy to a congested district. There was not the same unanimity of opinion about the next proposed site. This was the northern end of the Athletic Park Golf Club’s links, city property on the Town Belt, off upper Adelaide Road. The city engineer, Mr. K. Luke, said that without difficulty two parks the size of Athletic Park could be formed in this area, without any cost to the reserves committee. The director of parks and reserves, Mr. J. G. MacKenzie, was opposed to the idea. He said that the links were crowded each weekend, and, even if the gullies were reelaim. d one at time, he did not see how they could get another suitable outlay for the course; also, there was a £lOOO golf house on the links. The party then went to Liardet Street, where a gulch extends at the eastern side of the road for over a quarter of a mile. At the lower end there is the scar of an old metal quarry, which could also be made good land again by the judicious use of city refuse and spoil. The engineers would like to build another road line, higher up on the western bank, and so increase the capacity of the gully, by covering in right over the existing road. This site would last five years and would take a quarter of a million cubic yards of filling. An easier site to work exists a little to the south on the same road, looking toward the Presbyterian Orphanage. Here is a stretch of undulating Town Belt, partly planted with native shrubs, which could be levelled off with ease, so as to form a ten-acre recreation ground, within touch of the principal streets of Wellington South. Clean spoil is essential to the Bradford system, and here, by excavation, there would be ample spoil for an extensive tip, just where one is needed.

The committee visited the top on the Town Belt at Levnud Street, which so far is not controlled. This is fairly rough country, steep-sided gullies and well-defined ridges between them. The engineers had no doubt about this site. It would be ideal, as it would last for many years, and would eventually create playing ar. as where none are possible today. The director of reserves was in full accord with the engineers. It is intended to have a plan prepared showing the tipping areas, and to ask the city council to approve it, so that there may be a definite programme of controlled tipping, in view of the abandonment of the city destructor.