WAITEMATA COUNTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 14

WAITEMATA COUNTY.

THE HELENSVILLE BRIDGE. PROGRESS OF ROAD WORKS. Tho Waitemata County Council met yesterday, the chairman, Mr. H. Day, presiding. »" The urgent necessity for strengthening the Helensvillo, Bridge on the. road was stressed by the He . stated £260 would be sufficient to make the bridge 6afe for a reasonable period. It was decided to communicate with the Main Highways Board with the object of obtaining a pound for pound subsidy on the work.

The tender of G. E. King, for £3BO 4s, was accepted for the installation of three concrete pipe culverts on the HelensvilleWaiwere main highway. No reply was received from the Main Highways Board regarding the " tetter Of protest sent' by the couhcil in connection with repairs to the Lower Orewa Bridge in the. Wainui Hiding. The tender of A. Tamer, for £2BB 17s, was accepted for the repair work to the structure. A tender was also accepted for the quarrying and carting of metal for the Road. The engineer reported- that .tenders for reconstructing portion of Huia Bridge would be called at the nest meeting. The metalling of Millbrook Road, Waikumete, I was nearly completed. Ten. chains of ■ Sturges Road, in the Waipareira Riding, had been metalled and arrangements were being made to extend the work. The rei building of Bond's Bridge was progressing. The repair of flood damage on Mountain Road was almost completed, but it would be necessary for the work to be extended to include the removal of a large slip which had recently blocked the road. The metalling of the clay gap of the main highway in the Waitakere Riding was nearing completion. All clay roads would be graded as soon as oppor-. tunity offered! The metalling of 56 chains of the Silverdale-Redvale Road out of Government grant and loan money had been commenced. The Takapuna Borough Council had filled; the roadway across the Wairau Estuary and it would soon be possible to traverse the whole length, by motor-car. Estimates for the 1927-28 -season had been approved by the Public Works Department. The inspector reported that 34. building permits, involving £8733, liad been issued during the month. ... The appointment of Mr. A. M. Laing to the Auckland Hospital Board and Mr. G. O'Halloran to the Waitemata ElectricPower Board were confirmed. " It is a fine, structure and a .credit to the contractor," said the engineer, when reporting on the rebuilding of, Knox Bridge, in the Waipareira, Riding. ,He said the bridge,, which was of an entirely new design, was, now Completed except for the forming and metalling of earthwork approaches. It was hoped to open the bridge for traffic within a fortnight. -:' "