FLOURISHING HAMILTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18888, 10 December 1924, Page 5

FLOURISHING HAMILTON.

CIVIC SUMMER PROGRAMME. GOOD PROGRESS MANIFEST. < [BY TELEGRAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] HAMILTON. Tuesday. Whilo tho building programme of this year in Hamilton is phenomenal there is perhaps nothing that shows the town's advancement more than docs the complete and comprehensive roading scheme that is now being prosecuted with the utmost vigour. The first introduction to the scheme that a visitor gets on descending from the overhead bridge at Frankton is a concrete road of over a mile now com-

pleted to the main street of Hamilton. By far the greater part of the work, however, is being done in bitumen, and in order to get as much as possible accomplished during tho summer months the council has provided effective plant and equipment. In addition to a McLaren road roller, there are two tandem rollers, several bitumen bpilers and two penetration spraying machines, each unit having a. team of trained men. There is evory indication that the majority of the through routes will bo well finished this season, and also the greater part of the subsidiary streets on the schedule. Up to the present River Road has been laid dov from the Traffic Bridge to the borough boundary, Victoria Street from die town to the borough boundary and Grey Street, Heaphy Terrace and , Naylor Streets through their entire length.. Rosstrovor Street has been completed and. .. Bryce, Ward, Collingwood and Piako Streets, also Hospital Road, are in hand. Great improvement is manifest and the old reproach of " bad roads" is being rapidly silenced. A considerable amount • of kerbing and channelling has been done, and an extensive plan of footways improvement will be carried out. More per- * manent roading and footpath improvements have been completed this year than r in any other one year during the town's existence.

The waterworks department is also on . a good footing. Sufficient extra storage has been provided to ensure adequate provision for some years ahead. A new rising . main has been installed and the electric pumps are capable of keeping up a supply greatly in excess of the demand. A new de-chlorinating plant lias just been installed so that the purity of the supply is assured. The chlorine is absorbed in the water at the pumping station, ' and after leaving the reservoir passes through newlv-installed machinery by which the chlorine is eliminated by special filtration. This, with the completion of the storm water drainage of the whole of the borough, the installation of the electric lighting system, and the almost completed sewerage scheme, added to the building operations of the Government in the Frankton area and private enterprise in all parts of the borough, constitutes a record of progress that would be hard to beat.