ONEHUNGA STREET WORKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18774, 30 July 1924, Page 10

ONEHUNGA STREET WORKS.

PRINCES STREET COMPLETED

ALREADY TORN UP A^AIN.

The contractors for the first part of the Onebnnga £75,000 rasd improvements have completed the formation and surfacing of Princes Street East, and this thon<?C|ghfare is again open for traffic, an accomplishment that will he fully appreciated by the numerous visitors to Waikaraka.. The method of surfacing has beep by tarred macadam, the tar being .applied by sprinkling, on the penetration system, afterwards receiving a good coat of metal chips.' , In accordance with the system by which cne local body so often destroys the work cf another, throngh failing to act in combination, the contractors had no sooner completed the street, leaving a perfectly consohdated, even surface, when the Power Board tore up a canal across it to lay an electric mainJ What last i»eek was ft perfect roadway is now marred by a spot giving a jolt to all who use tins route. The contractors are. now engaged in Qiurch Street East, a work of a heavier nature, as ;it includes a 9ft. cutting through solid rock, with a corresponding • filling. Good progress is being made, however, and with fine weather this ihoroughiare will also be open for traffic before long.; It it intended to surface this by the ; sskme method as in Princes Street, and a good deal of the metal is already laid.