TAKING SHAPE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27568, 9 December 1950, Page 10

TAKING SHAPE

New Highway To Roslyn

The Albert street extension —which will become the Stuart street extension when street names are changed in Dunedin on Januarj* I—is now taking definite shape. The contractors, McJarrow Bros., have raised the level of the ground over the former Queen's Drive road at Littlebourne to the contract height of 40 feet by filling from the site,of Littlebourne House. A retaining wall on the Otago Boys' High School side of the new highway has to be erected before the filling in of this area can be completed, but a start has been made on the foundations for this work.

The site reserved by the Dunedin City Council for the erection of new swimming baths for the city adjacent to the area formerly occupied by the Moana tennis courts has been levelled.

The playing field on the former Littlebourne*House site has been excavated to the required grades, but the topsoil has still to be laid. The machinery used on the job is now being used to raise the part of the highway above Queen’s Drive to the level set down in the contract. The construction of the bridge across Highgate under which the new highway will pass will now be undertaken in the autumn. In Tyne street, along which traffic will be diverted from Highgate when the bridge is being built, a new wall has been erected. Two sets of steps, dividing the wall into three almost equal parts, have been laid down, and the wall lacks only the erection of a hand-rail and a small amount of plastering to be complete. The Dunedin City Corporation will reinstate the roadway and the footpath below the wall.

The contractors have been able to make good progress with all the work as a result of favourable weather. The excavation in the grounds of Littlebourne House has uncovered two large brick water tanks. These, which are full of water, will be demolished.