TAHUNANUI ROADS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 11 November 1942, Page 6

TAHUNANUI ROADS

IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME SEALING WORK DI KING SUMMER «5 CHAINS OF FOOTPATHS Preliminary work in connection with a road improvement and sealing programme is at present being carried out on a number of streets in the Tahunanui Town Board’s district. In addition to the widening of the road surfaces and the sealing of a number of streets, the improvements which will be carried out later in the summer months will include work on 65 chains of footpaths on the Main and Beach roads. The Town Board last evening authorised its Works Committee to finalise arrangements for the sealing as soon as a reply is received from the Public Works Department to a request for a subsidy of £3OO. If no subsidy is received the sealing work will be done with what is described as a metal chip seal. In view of the fact that the board’s roads are carrying much more traffic than in normal times, thus increasing maintenance costs, application has been made for the subsidy- If that is granted the sealing work will be of a more solid type. The haunches of Parker’s road, Roto street and Green street are being scarified and graded off and the sides of the road filled in with solid material and spread with a light running coat of chips. Later the haunches will be sprayed with a mixture of tar an doil. It is estimater that this work will cost about £l2O. The chip sealing work will be carried out on Muratai street (from Main road to Green street), Golf road. Green street and Roto street at a cost of about £575. When * that work is done all the sealed surfaces will be 21 feet in width. About £240 will be spent on 45 chains of footpath along Main road and 20 chains along Beach roadThe expenditure authorised totals about £IOOO but an additional £3OO will be expended if a subsidy is granted by the Government. Members present at last night’s meeting were: Messrs C H. Chamberlain (chairman), T. E. Hudson, J. Logan, L. C. Haywood, T. W. Roberts, C. P. Palmer, and A B. Ingram. Mr Chamberlain said that the board was endeavouring to make the running surface of all its access roads 21 feet in width They wished to bring the roads on the flat part of the district up to the standard of those on the hill. The one coat seal would be carried out in any case but a subsidy of the amount suggested would allow the application of a more lasting seal. Mr J. Logan commented that the sealing work undertaken in the past had been very successful and had considerably reduced maintenance costs.