BAY VIEW ROAD

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 79, 15 March 1934, Page 3

BAY VIEW ROAD

Tar-Sealing to be Done EARTHQUAKE RESTORATION Though official confirmation of the proposal to spend in the neighbourhood of £7OOO upon the permanent sealing of the Westshore embankment and the Westshore-Bay View road has not been received by Mr. A. Dinnie, the district engineer of Public Works at Napier, it may be authoritatively stated that the Main Highways Board will sanction the work to begin very shortly. This is the last of the earthquake restoration work in the Hawke’s Bay. County, and is likely to take 10 weeks. Because of the widespread losses suffered by the county at the time of the earthquake, the Public Works Department undertook to reinstate the whole of the Napier-Gisborne main highway where it traversed the Hawke’s Bay County Council sector. A county official said yesterday afternoon that this permanent sealing work to be done on the Westshore embankment, as well a s the road from Westshore to Bay View, was actually part of the department’s promise to reinstate any damage done by the earthquake, “a very generous action, and one which has been fully honoured by the Main Highways Board,” he said. The Westshore-Bay View section of road has long been a bugbear to traffic, and when the highway is properly scaled, it will meet with tjie appreciation of every motorist who has occasion to use it.