STREETS FOR RE-SURFACING & SEALING NAMED: £10,000 WORTH OF WORK THIS YEAR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23023, 13 August 1949, Page 4

STREETS FOR RE-SURFACING & SEALING NAMED: £IO,OOO WORTH OF WORK THIS YEAR

THE Gisborne Borough Council is to embark on a major programme of street-resurfacing and sealing this year. Provision has been made for re-surfacing of 221 chains of streets at an

estimated cost of £6500 and the sealing of 196 chains, tentatively estimated at £3500.

Details of preparations submitted for* the work of the borough engineer. Mr. G. M. Beaumont, were approved by the council at its meeting this week. Re-Surfacing'. Roads that will be re-surfaced are: Anzac street. 15 chains; Awapuni road. 31 chains; Centennial crescent, 39 chains: Childers road-Read s Quay to Grev street. 30 chains; Childers road- ( Grev street to Cobden street. 17 chains; Cobdcn street-Gladstone road to Palmerston road, 8 chains: Gladstone roadDerbv street to Cobden street, 10 j chains; Iranui road-Harris street to j[ Hinnki street. 22 chains; Read’s quay- t Bright street to Peel street. 6 chains; I $ Roebuck road-Anzac street to Glad- j stone road. 43 chains. 1 Sealing Works. Streets approved for scaling, listed [ in order of priority, are:—■ I Maki street. 10 chains: Stafford 1 street-Ormond road to Stout street, 5 £ chains: Crawford road-Parau street to Wainui road. 31 chains; Grey street- { Palmerston road to river, 10 chains; 5 Waitangi street. 11 chains; Kahutia t street-Cobden street to Derby street, s !1 chains: Chalmers road-Childers road r to aerodrome. 37 chains; Herbert road, c 20 chains: Palmerston road-Roebuck I road to Herbert road. 15 chains; Cob- c den strect-Palmerston road to Aberdeen f road. 12 chains: Rawiri street, 14 chains; Clifford street-Stafford street to Shee- £ ban street. 20 chains. c These details were released yester- F dav bv the town clerk. Mr. W. M. t Jenkins. \ It was proposed, he said, to carry out these works during the coming season, 1 the progress of the programme depend- « ing, of course, on the weather. c _ The re-surfacing work —that is seal- ~ ing of existing bitumanised streets — S which he termed more or less,deferred maintenance brought about chiefly dur- 0 ing the war years., was proposed to be done by contract, with use being made \ of the council’s hot-mix plant, which has not been in operation for some c years. This equipment was recently j overhauled in readiness for the com- t ing work. Priority Factors. The new sealing programme would be . undertaken bv the council’s staff. 1 Streets had been arranged in order of priority, taking into account traffic densities and maintenance costs. The council, he said, had received a considerable number of requests from ( individual ratepayers for attention to streets in their particular localities. It r was impossible to have all attended _ to and a four-year programme had t been arranged, with an annual expen- , diture of about £3500 on sealing and j £6500 on re-surfacing. * In deciding on the two programmes, consideration had been given to the state of existing sealed routes, the e volume of traffic and the fact that I gravel roads accentuated the. dust nuisance and were costly to maintain. *■