PAVING NEXT MONTH

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 11

PAVING NEXT MONTH

PREPARATION WORK IN HAND

PLANS FOE THE TAITA LENGTH.

A report laid before the City and Suburban Highways Board to-day by the City Engineer stated that tho four paving plants were now under overhaul, and that practically all repair work would'be completed within a week. Provided weather' conditions were favourable a. start-in actual paving -would be made 'early next month.

Preparation work was in hand at Coiitti-street, Kilbirnie, Island Bay parade, and Wakefield street, in the city, and on the main road at Petone between Koro Koro and White's Line.

General maintenance work had been carried'out on the road surfaces taken bVer Ijy' the City Council and not yet paved. Particular attention had been given 'to the main East Coast roacl and the Day's Bay ; foreshore road. .

The representing engineer on the Main Highways Board had been interviewed'in regard to the paving"of If miles of tho main East Coast highway, Taita section. Plans and specifications were being prepared for a proposal to pave 1.10 chains of thia section of a minimum width Of loft where the road formation would not allow of tho 18ft width of pavement central in the road reservation as required by the Main Highways Board, the 15ft width to be widened at a later date when the widening or formation had been completed and sufficiently consolidated to take the pavement. It was hoped to get the Main', Highways Board '.• approval of thia proposal and commence this paving work after the completion of the main road in the Petone Borough.

Tho plans dealing with the proposed improvements to tho entrance at Williams 's Park, Day's Bay, opposite the Ferry Wharf, as' submitted to the board-at the last monthly meeting, had been forwarded to', the . Eeserves Committee ;o:f the City Council. Tho Director of Parks and Eeserves had been instructed to confer with the City Engineer and the County Engineer of the Hutt County Council in relation to the proposed improvements.