GARDEN PLACE HILL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 12

GARDEN PLACE HILL

HAMILTON UNDERTAKING REMOVAL WORK RESUMED [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday A resumption was made to-day with the removal of Garden Place Hill. The work was suspended some months ago, when 285,000 cubic yards of spoil of the 350,000 cubic yards in the hill had been removed. It is proposed to use the balance in improving the football and other recreation grounds in Hamilton. One excavator was at work to-day. but the contractors arc installing hoppers, a carry-all, and a bulldozer to expedite the work. Of the original hill two eminences, one to the north and the other to the south-west of the centre of Garden Place, remain. The front and central portions have been levelled and areas are being laid out in gardens, alternated with parking places for cars. The streets and parking areas have been metalled, and will bo asphalted next week. The Hamilton Borough Council will submit a proposal to the ratepayers on November 29 asking their sanction to raise a loan of £10,500 for the purpose of recouping to the Garden Place rating area the cost involved in providing a level site at Garden Place for civic purposes. On the same date, a loan proposal involving £6500 for tho provision of conveniences for the town, some of which it is proposed to erect in Garden Place, will be submitted.

Two largo concrete buildings have been altered to provide shop fronts to Garden Place, while plans aro being prepared for the erection of two other blocks with frontages to the area.