CITY AMENITIES

Evening Star, Issue 22559, 29 January 1937, Page 11

CITY AMENITIES

VARIOUS WORKS APPROVED The Works Committee of the City Council reports that the city engineer has been instructed to proceed with the following works : Excavating a hank along the frontage of a property in Brunei street; estimated cost £45. This work is conditional upon the property owner giving an undertaking to erect a wall on the new alignment. Removing a bank in Moana Crescent to permit the erection of a motor garage; estimated cost £5. Erecting about one chain of protection -fencing in Tweed street; estimated cost £lO. Removing a bank in Oates street to permit of the building of a concrete retaining wall. Estimated cost of the work, including the paving of the portion of footpath now occupied by the bank, £2l. , . . Widening Evans street on the frontage of two properties and battering into the properties. Estimated cost, allowing also for necessary street work, £4O. Removing a bank on the frontage of a property in Sidey street. Estimated cost £lO. Providing a pathway giving access to a property in Canongate. Estimated cost, including handrail on the lower side, £lO. Erecting one new light in Forth street and shifting one existing light to equalise the spacing. Effecting improvements to the drivers’ hut at the St. Kilda tip, including the provision of a bench and table. Estimated cost £6. The Reserves Committee reports that authority has been granted to make application to the Unemployment Board for sanction to the utilising of No 5 scheme labour on the following works :—Levelling and forming a recreation ground on the Chingford property, North-east Valley, recently acquired by the council. Sanction for the utilising of scheme 5 labour on the work of forming a recreation area on the Robin Hood quarry, Town Belt, has now been received. Clearing, levelling, and sowing clown of the children’s playground on the council’s property at Cairnhill street in the Marne township, Maori Hill.