SEVERAL PROPOSALS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 10

SEVERAL PROPOSALS

SPOIL FOR ROAD WIDENING.

Sovcral years ago it was decided that 3-lenm.ore street —or as it was tlien known, Karori road—would have to bo ■widened from about tlio Botanical Gardens up to the viaduct, and various proposals have been put forward as to obtaining the many thousand cubic yards of spoil necessary for the filling in of the deep gully which iiarallels the road in its length past the upper part of the Gardens, and for the building southwards of the park inside the long picket fence leading up. from the main entrance. As a matter of fact, a certain amount of widening has already been done, first by setting back the new main entrance gates, whicli will some day be in keeping with the Garden boundaries, but now look very spick and span as compared with the old-time fencing, and, higher up, near the "white gate," by v considerable filling in of the gully by spoil obtained from the "widening of the Plunket street cutting. , TAKING THE TOP OFF. Two or throe years ago a proposal ■was made that the required spoil might bo obtained by cutting oir the knob of the hill above the upper gully and chuting' the material down direct to the filling. It was suggested that a double purpose would so bo served, in road >idening and in providing a very fair space of level ground, That plan has not been to the fore recently. SYSTEM OF TERRACINGPROPOSED. Then came the Gardens road plans and survey, to which such strong exception haa boon taken"by many poeplc. There is still another proposal, which, it is understood, was favourably spoken of at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Reserves Committee, and that is to terrace the hill looking down on the band rotunda and obtain the 15,000 or 20,000 tons of spoil in that way. It is not that there- is not any amount of spoil available about V.'ellington, but each of these suggestions has arisen from tiro fact that tlio spoil for filling must be obtained very near the job if tlio work is to be carried out economically. The notice of intention to widen Glenmore street given owners of property above tlio Gardens has been received in very mixod fashion, for promises of compensation for the ten feet or so of. land to bo tiikcn altogether fail to pacify those owner:! whoso front gardens arc- already on tho small side. The road paving will wait upon road widening, though the outer lengths of Karori road may be taken in hand bofore long.