BOROUGH WORKS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 232, 17 September 1935, Page 6

BOROUGH WORKS

SCHEMES ADOPTED

Extending Road Construction

EXPENDITURE FROM REVENUE

An announcement that a stun of £5OOO is available for expenditure as supplementary estimates for additional road construction in the borough was made this morning by the Mayor of Hastings, Mr. G. A, Maddison. Besides that amount, which is available out of revenue, and which will bring the amount spent on borough works out ot revenue during the past two years up to £20,000, the council is to spend a large sum of money on other borough works within the next two years.

When the road formation and surfacing provided for out of the £3OOO is done, said Mr. Maddison, there will be 25 miles of surfaced road in the borough, the total of formed roads be ing 48 miles in all. In addition, the council is to spend during the coming summer £2OOO on the construction of concrete footpaths live feet in width, and when that work is done the borough will have 43 miles of concrete path.

The policy of the council, added Mr, Maddison, was to build concrete footpaths so far as it was possible to meet the needs of increasing settlement, and to replace perished asphalt footpaths in the residential areas. WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. In the central business area, however, and particularly in the business section of Heretaunga street, the full width of asphalt footpath would be maintained.

During the recent visit of Mr. W. Bromley, deputy chairman of the Unemployment Board, the council took the opportunity of making application for a subsidy on this additional wors

in constructing new footpaths and road surfaces, and Mr. Bromley promised to give favourable consideration to the application. If the subsidy were forthcoming, Mr. Maddison said, relief workers would be engaged on their ordinary allocation, and on the other days of the week they wotild be employed by the council at standard rates of psy, ’ The amount of money available as supplementary estimates, Mr. Maddison added, was £13,251, and of that amount a total of £lO,OOO would be spent on roads and footpaths and other borough improvements, and the balance would be carried forward fpr the carrying out of additional works in the 1936-37 financial year. With the amount then due to the council from the sale of the borough electric plant to the Hawke s Bay Power Board, the total then available for additional borough works should be approximately £B9OO. In addition to the amounts already mentioned, said His Worship, about

£2OOO would be spent on putting a further sealing-coat and in carrying out repairs on bitumen roads and streets already constructed. The frst bitumen street, Heretaunga street, had been laid down in 1914, and wherever there were weaknesses or flaws in such areas they would be repaired.