STREET IMPROVEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21879, 16 November 1934, Page 7

STREET IMPROVEMENTS

WG3&B GCHMITTEfT G?ERATI&NS IaStaiIGTISHS 78 G!TY ENGINEER ,ij Aocording’to.-the report of the Works Committee ■or the City Council, the city engineer has been instructed as follows■ (a) Act in respect of the; undernoted matters: Constructing an intake on the west side of Jlcwa street frith connection to mud tank on the east side, and earth channel to prevent storm water from entering- private property. Estimated l cost £l3 10s. ' Constructing about thirteen chains of. permanent- gutter in tarred macadam in portion of ■ Beta street to prevent storm water from entering private ; properties. Estimated cost £Hi. ' ' • • ' Filling with clay and stone portion of Walton street, where land has sub* sided at the back of the. footpath. Estimated - cost to the council, providing .for relief labour, £6" 10s. Extending the chain, netting fencing in Hart street at the side of the low level footway. Estimated cost £6. Widening- portion of Maryhill ter-race-and English avenue, where land has been acquired’ for the purpose. Estimated cost to-council, -providing for relief labour, £l6O. ‘ Laying' tarred macadam footway in portion of Tomahawk l-oad. Estimated cost £2 10s; Clearing broom and elderberry on the water and quarry reserve. Cannington road. Estimated cost to the council, providing for-;relief labour. £34. Clearing 'gorse,.- broom, and elderberry- on; the council’s land in Dean and Wairoa streets. . Estimated cost to the council, providing for relief labour,. £34. (b) Record the undernoted matters for consideration with next year’s allocations:— Completing the tarred macadam footways in iVf’Geofge avenue. Estimated cost £3G. _ Forming footways on the railway side of Wilkie road and Bridgman street with necessary retaining • wall at the railway., embankment. Estimated cost 'to the : council, providing for relief -labour:' Wilkie road, fSfOSj Bridgman street, £259. .