GLENMORE ROAD

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12602, 12 November 1926, Page 8

GLENMORE ROAD

FILLING THE GULLY FOR WIDENING PURPOSES WHERE SHOULD THE SPOIL COME FROM? The works committee proposed to the City Council last night that the offer of the reserves department to endeavour to supply spoil from the adjacent bill to fill the gully at Glenmore street in order that this street might be widened prior to paving should be accepted. It was explained that the committee was not laying it down that the spoil should be obtained from any particular place; the thing was that spoil should be obtained from some suitable place. Councillor Burns said that if the spoil came from the place where he understood it was to be obtained he thought an improvement could be effected without any harm being done. He thought part of a hill could be reduced, and a flat play area made. A few pines might be lost, but generally he thought the work would make for improvement. Councillor Glover thought that this might mean interference with other parts of the gardens. He wa6 surprised at anyone suggesting this after the storm which had been, raised. The Mayor (Mr O. J. B. Norwood) said that the committee must work together to produce the best results in the circumstances. There was much of the land under the control of the reserves committee from which spoil could be taken, and there were repeated requests for material of this description. The chairman did not tie the committee down, but he wanted the spoil to come from the most economical places. The only concern at present was the widening of Glenmore road. Councillor R. Semple: The only query is: Where is the adjacent hill? The Mayor: You do not want to tie something up when you want to bitumenise the road. That would be wrong in principle. A proposal to refer the clause back was not seconded, and the original motion was carried. Councillor Martin Luckie writes: “May I ask you to correct the error appefiring in the account of the pro-

ceedings at the last meeting of the reserves committee published in this morning’s ‘Times,’ in which you state that I was absent from the meeting. I was present at the meeting, and when the matter was under consideration, it was on my motion that .the resolution you refer to, opposing the construction of a road through the Botanical Gardens, was passed by the committee.”