DIVERSION OF STREAM
NGAHAURANGA GORGE ROAD RECONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT ] WELLINGTON, Thursday 4 An important stage has been reached in the work of reconstructing the Ngahauranga Gorge Road, between Ngahauranga and Johnsonville, Wellington. Sufficient preliminary work of culvert construction and stream diversion has been accomplished 1 the heavy task of shifting large quantities ,of spoil to begin. Work will begin on Mondav on a contract for making the Saddle Cut, the principal undertaking on the project. A large contract party will work two shifts a day—from 4 a.m. to noon and from 110041 to 8 p.m., the Public Works Department supplying the machinery. The scene of the work will be floodlit when there is not sufficient daylight. The spoil from the cut will be carried down the gorge and dumped in the bed of the stream to form the foundation of the new road. Yesterday the stream at this point was diverted from its path to the new bed the Public Works Department has made for it higher and to one side. Its bed is now the bitumen that used to be the road surface.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23162, 7 October 1938, Page 12
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188DIVERSION OF STREAM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23162, 7 October 1938, Page 12
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