SEA WALL AND ROADING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 3

SEA WALL AND ROADING

LEVEL GOING TO MIRAMAR

WORK IN EVANS BAY AREA

The Oriental Bay sea wall shows . : promise of rounding Point Jerning-: '-■■'■ ham and joining up with the next/ length of wall, completed last year,' : before many months.have gone by ■ ■ '■ .there were two chief: reasons wlry^ . ; •the building of the wall on past this • *: liiosk was stopped last year; -first'!" : an. insufliciency of finance, quite a . ■ sufficient reason,: and, secondly an ?i ' argument that, finance or none, there L '■■ would be aiv insufficiency of filling - until the construction of the.lift to ' -Koseneath was 'comrriencedXT.r.lXh'o'J'S.''second -point has seemingly' bee-a - r waived, for the expression of opiri- -; ion from the Mayor that the liifc' ' should not be proceeded with' has netbeen _ accompanied \by a similar ej;-.. ' -■■ pression of opinion in regard to the"- ' sea wall. v . ; :■ -°: • .... , ;■•/.:.'.- Further round Evans Bay- is '■""'• mg. recommenced upoiL,;-walii building, upon as- V'fish.scale" plan; and during .: the next'few months a good,deal of road improvement.work will.be carried out id '■: preparation;:for 'a ;continuation of^bitu- - minous paying next. spririg^aiid mer. A number of .bad corners' willhavrf-' to be rounded^off;anif the; roadside; pro^: tectedirom; erosion, by the. sea Here and '' there, but no great amount of road widen- ? mg will be carried .out: iii-:the.'mean-time, .as there is generally: ample width ' to. permit the laying" of: the..24ft pave-; ment provided .fori by. the Hutfroad ex- • tension scheme.V Boat shedsi" slips, Vand: .'- ---bathing shelters, will not"be; affected 'for the", time being, 'though at sonic /future '.. time, the..widening .'of .■ the. whole, road'for--: ; mation; may make a difference"..,;;. :'•;'"•'.:'. ■r- -Generally, ispeakirig,." the/: Evans-XBay;*: roa_d is in.good. order,.-in excellent:con-,; dition '■- in' those' lengths; paved with", bitu-/ i men last season, and in. very much" bet- :; ter order than the appalling parade round Oriental Bay;':; Once -,-the".. parade, '\lia"i brought up to-city;,condition, by which T. time,the. Eyans;'.Bay paying; wiUTprobably be::fuUyc6mpleted,athis;iro*ute':will '' bear an immense; amount of-traffic;. ;;C.'.;.:.:: .; -fiv -4 \ A POT-HOLED' -RO'Ap!viifi^"; ■ ;Further:■ on, again .is ;;Beatoun^road, "^ le'adiiig to the; Miramar '.Wharf,'and' Mir-: ; amar. ■-■:At theJnioment- it. is'in yerylbad ° ■ condition.-pot-holed and:badly corrugSt- :' ed, and," after wet .fweathe'r.;a'';sea-:of ■ greasy 'mud. :Temporary .recoilditioniDg-: ; is '^now" proceeding on this length^: scari- "':'-. fying'and ferolling.;:-The formation wVkr>: for the new;length of roadway'Mfhich will ■': take traffic from;the-Evansjßay.creseeiit/j direct jtoSeatounTroad,'ror'Qriepu road; -;; which is; also receiving';a;. temporary "treat-: ment;; is well. ahead.:,;,;lt will ; relieve'; greatly; the :congesdoiv of tfani and other ■ traffic at the.Kilbirnie PqstVOmce:.y:Sea-: toun .road at. the; present :-tirhe-.;C'arries : V veryi-heavy.;tramc,~.butiirila'jyear'b'f;:'s6'.; its.traffic, volume „will beiricreased'ehor- -; niously, for.-.the 1' operation of the British Imperial Oil Company's tinning andcasing works/must "mean. a.':lieayy.;incr-*sß :; injorry-transport;.between*:»Miraniar and• the city. ,r\ Macadam roading- -; does ■ not ■'' starid;*up to the; present: pounding, it: re-' .ceive.S;';J)n> "Seatoun^road,:. andj;%yill ; f fail /. more' rapidly -if this additional-;- punisbj. "_, merit is:applied.-. .-':—■ :; -'i*i... ::';.;:.";'3;-;-':;is.':