NEW DOMAIN DRIVE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22901, 2 December 1937, Page 12

NEW DOMAIN DRIVE

WORK COMMENCED STANLEY STREET ACCESS WAGES SUBSIDY SCHEME The first of the earthworks in the formation of the new road in the Domain has been started, men having commenced the cutting where the road will swing to the right of the old footway which leads from Stanley Street to the ornamental ponds. Thirty men are being employed by the City Council on this undertaking, the Government assisting with a wages subsidy of £4 a week per man for 17 weeks. The formation of this road is linked with the intention to proceed with the establishment of an aboretum on the northern slopes of the Domain. In deciding last August to construct the new drive the council endorsed the opinion of its town planning committee that the drive would form an essential part of the plan for serving 'ihe aboretum and eventually the playing fields and museum. A certain amount of formation work will be required in the replanning of this area and to obviate future disturbance and to enable early planting to take place, the council decided on the regrading and grassing of the new drive and the construction of a pathway on a new alignment. At present the pathway from Stanley Street follows a straight line to the top of the hill near the ornamental ponds, but the new drive, starting from about the same point at Stanley Street will swing to the right and then curve to the left, crossing the line of the existing path and then veering back to join the main Domain Drive near the top of the old path.