STREET WORKS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10376, 6 April 1927, Page 5

STREET WORKS

IMPROVEMENTS PROGRESSING

ROAD RECONSTRUCTION

The road reconstruction work in the borough for this season undertaken under loans, is now progressing towards completion. The Borough engineer (Mr A. Young)"in a report to~ the Borough Council last evening stated that the gravelling of the carriage way and the eastern footpath of Maki St. was being done, as was convenient. The excavation of Childers Bond was completed, and the paving had been finished while 95 per cent of the channelling had also been clone. All work in Beads Quay had been finished. .Ninety per cent, ot the excavation of Gladstone Road, from Grey Street to Carnarvon Street has been finished and the excavation from Carnarvon Street to Disraeli Street is now being undertaken. Between Grey and C'obden Streets 90 per cent, of the foundation has been laid, and 50 per cent, of this work lias been done on the Cobden-Camar-v/in Streets section. The formation new water channelling from Derby Street to Cobden Street had been* completed, while this work on the Carnarvon-Disraeli Streets section is in hand. The paving work lias also been commenced. The kerb •channelling on the north side of Palmerston Road and the regrading ot that street has been commenced. The I2in stormwater dram in Disraeli Street lias been completed as well as the side drains in Gladstone Road. All the stormwater drains necessary for the present road construction contract work to Roebuck Road -are nearly completed.