ROAD SEALING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 11

ROAD SEALING

NORTHERN HIGHWAYS SURFACING AT ALBANY START TO BE MADE TO-DAY The Public Works Department intends to start to-day on the sealing of two and a-half miles of the East Coast highway from Albany northward. This will include the deviations on the Albany Hill, and, as all foundation and preliminary work has been done, it is anticipated that progress will bo rapid. The sealing of the surface over the hill will bo particularly appreciated by motorists. On the Auckland-Helensville Road between Lincoln Bridge and Brigham's Creek the contractor, who is . reconstructing six miles of the highway, has started on the permanent surfacing of one and a-half miles. By the end of the week this portion will have been made dustless, although the actual skin surface may not have been completed. The remaining portion of the six miles stretch will be sealed by the end of the summer season.

Nearly all the reconstruction work on the highway between Auckland and Helensville has now been finished. The Public Works Department is engaged in the permanent surfacing of a stretch of about eight miles between Brigham's Creek and Kumeu. This operation will be.completed by the end of the season. The sealing of the two sections mentioned will ensure that before next winter an uninterrupted stretch of sealed highway from Auckland to Huapai will be available. Beyond to Helensville there are some substantial stretches of sealed surface.