PROGRESS AT HAMILTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20627, 28 July 1930, Page 7

PROGRESS AT HAMILTON.

BUILDINGS AND WORKS.

COURTHOUSE NEARLY FINISHED

[r.Y IZr.EGK APH. —OWN O >U UESI'ONDKNT. ] HAMILTON*, Sunday.

Although the past year has hern marked by an appreciable (increase in the number of private dwellings and other buildings erected in Hamilton, the period has been fine of great activity where public buildings and borough works are. concerned. The new courthouse now in course of r-fction on the rise behind St.. Peter's Cathedral and fronting Anglesea Street, is rearing completion. The .structural part of the building, which will house both tIk 1 .Supreme and Magistrate's Courts, is firrhed, ninl little remains to be clone beyond the main entrance and (he interior furnishing and decorating. Another important building is the new twostorey maternity block recently completed at (no Waikato Hospital. All the fittings and furniture have, not yet been installed, but it, is expected that the block, which will accommodate 20 patients, will be ready for occupation in a few weeks. The chief works now being undertaken by tl.e borough are the cutting in Anglesea Street to provide an alternative level route parallel with Victoria Street, and the building of a culvert over the Waitevvh iiv.hiri Stream at Maeron. Both these works were started with the object of reliving unemployment in Hamilton and are estimated to cost abo.ut £16,000, which includes a subsidy of £7500 contiibuted by the Government.

At present 50 men are engaged in tl.iee gangs, each man being employed for alternate periods of a fortnight. Gangs are working on both sides of the cutting in Anglesea Street and good progress has been made. The spoil excavated will be used in building up the Macroa culvert, which will replace the existing one-way b'idge spanning the gully. The large reservoir in Ruakiwi Street, will shortly be seen rising above the ground. The foundaton slab has been laid and good progress has been made with tl.o walls. The pumping station and filtration plant are almost ready for operation ard it is anticipated thai they will be in commission in a month's time. With the arrival of cast-iron water pipes from Ooal.aka next mouth the work of replacing old mains and extending the reticulation will lie commenced.