CITY RELIEF WORKS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 11

CITY RELIEF WORKS

MANY NEARIN6 CLOSE

SOME NEW JOBS

Though,-there are some 3000 men ongaged on "relief works ih the-city, it is possible to complete few of them straightforwardly. Buckle street regrading improvement, asa ease in point, has been "left in the air owing "to the .presence of police ■ buildings, which aT<i not to be removed at present.-Raroa road is finished with the exception of a piece of Moana road past tno head of Baroa crescent, a: steep, tortuous byway, which has been going to be closed for years, but. which seems not likely to be put put of business for a while,; for one reason and another, though its lower portion, a steex> clebouchenient at an-aivkward angle on the tram line' just belu w the Karori tunnel, emphasises a dangerous corner near where thei Bigi runs into the streets radiating fronr the Karori Viaduct. If the top of B.a-; roa crescent could be closed,-through: traffic would cease to be a danger • to Earoa road and the main Karori' thoroughfare. This is one:of'the spots where a good deal of general cleaning, up and iniprovement would be made possible by the closing" of the crescent. Such'conditions make it difficult for minor relier works to reach finality.- If jit is not a matter of property considerations, which* tie up progress' a good deal,; it is a mater _of finding a dump for spoil; from the job in progress, and more than one job has been temporarily stopped; till some accommodating gully was found, or some new play area required building up.' There are few jobs as ; straightforward as Alexander road, the; scenic drive over Mount Victoria from. Palliser road to Constable street. This, being constructed on the Town Belt, offered no complications, and the spoil was all useful in the-vicinity. -' ■ ■'.-

The sand levelling at Kongotai,-as far as the present scheme is ebneerried, is about £nißhed. ' The Happy. Valley road widening is approaching comple-; tion, and will not employ many men; much longer. The rpading of "Wilton's Block, one of the most satisfactory relief works from the~. city's;! point of view, as the work done tviir represent an asset when the blockj' -vvhich; is city property, comes to be subdivided; is past its inaxinium activity,, and , a reduction of hands will be necessary from now On. Another, work which is nearirig its final stages as relief work is. t the Kolleston street recreation area. ' TKe wideriin-r of Bussell terrace is past its busiest time, and a -number •of small jobs are getting to the stage when they will have received ail the attention they can get under relief work,, which is chieay concerned with formation, and leaves the metalling, channeling, and other work forf the council itself ttb do. A" useful work is the Manchester street-Owen street 30b' where'; a nice children's play area has ■resulted, arid "a" safe isfaetofy ■street- conriectibn-has' been made; Tauhinu road and Southariiptori road in Miramar have been formed and largely metalled from: the Mount. Victoria , tunnel^ where' some very useful inetai was excavated. ;; Beacon. Hill road, where a'track has been male into a road on Seatpun'Heights towards the signal station, is another useful'work. The Lyallßay sea wall is well in hand. The widening of the JohnsonvUlo road is well forward.

A _maJ9r work: has been ■•'started' in Eodrigo road> which .connects^ Melros-e with Duncan terrace, Tvfierc'"aJ Very steep' grade is'being improved." Quite a large number ,of men have been started iv Anderson Park where excavations will help to fill a gully to form another, foptball ground -if allgoes well, .-in. .time..-. ■ ~1 . -;,. L ■-.■■.

A .gopd r ,deal teinaiivs -.to, be doKfrturtho, Hatattai Jrocreatio^; area^:swliißte will be, much., nearer; .the-city <witli; vtlio" new tunnel.,. -Apparently no "effort"ds: being miade, to .epmplcte this,- area? in, a :fixed time., ■-,-' ...■,,;-.». \ r :~ '.:,■'..,...■:.