CITY WORKS POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 9

CITY WORKS POLICY.

J «TBEET IMPROVEMENTS, If ©OOP [PROGRESS MADE. ELIOTRIO STREET LIGHTING jjjgcassing various works ia progress in ! the city yesterday, the Mayor, Mr. J. H. '£■ ' Grinson, stated that advice had just been revived from the Government that the ojty Council could take possession of land occupied by the Railway Department at Epjom, as recently arranged, for street •widening purposes. The city engineer would immediately undertake the work of completing the widening of Manukau Bead fr°m the junction of the Great South Eoad to the city boundary at Newmarket. Preparatory work had already been done from the sanction to the railway boundary, and tho acquisition of the railway property would give an additional I4fk in width to the road. Tho whole of the street paving work from tho northern I boundary outwards, at the present rate [ of progress, would be finished this year. | This would involve the removal of the tram lines to the new street centre, and all the material for this work was in hand. Following tho completion of this the concrete-laying parties as well as the tramways workmen would bo transferred to the Great South Koad to undertake the improvement works and tramway .extensions already authorised. In the Grey Lynn area, said Mr. Gun*ob, the street improvement works, with the lutceptioa of the concrete paving of the Great North Road, were nearing completion. The concrete work would be commenced after the completion of similar work on the eastern side of the city in 1923. The Works Committee could have put on extra men for concrete laying, but its polity was to maintain a steady rate of progress rather than indulge in spasmodic effort. "jhe, Worka Committee had been extremely busy of late, continued the Mayor, arranging for and controlling the , numerous city worka, and had been giv- 1 ing particular attention to extensions of , the drainage system- These activities , were not confined to the old city area, , but included newer districts, such as Point Chevalier, in accordance with the i policy that "had been followed in recent ▼ears m Bemuera and other districts. , *■ Befesring to street lighting, Mr. Gun- , ion said 4b» ▼*•* important report on th« \ subject thai was submitted to the conned , 5 at its' last meeting, had been referred to a committee of the whol® council for consideration. The adoption of this report or any am.«>dment would provide a Iced policy tfll 1927, when all the city & "be adequately Ughted by electricity. This poKcy of Jghtojß f pogrWr* on*. » woold «ntail additional annual cost, yet the greatly needed Scored ligbtii* °* ,«» «** ST of the badly lighted & was a pressing obhgation tot could ■£Tbe met without additional expendim, which would be justified by resufc tant benefits.