AUCKLAND IMPROVEMENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3671, 22 July 1924, Page 28

AUCKLAND IMPROVEMENTS.

AN EXTENSIVE PROGRAMME

AUCKLAND, July 18. A great programme of improvements is bemg carried out in Auckland. In November last loans for the City Council totalling £710,000 were authorised—£3oo 000 for waterworks, £280,000 for tramways £120,000 for drainage, and £IO,OOO for a quarry, and, together with other loans authorised and not yet exercised, the total is £826,000. The City Council at present has under consideration proposals for completing a concrete loading programme at a cost of about £200,000. this being sufficient to concrete seven and a-ha!f miles and to put into permanent order with bitumen or other durable material 58 miles of secondary streets at a cost of £460,000. the idea being to complete the work in four years. There is a further scheme to construct a bridge over Arch Hill Gully, the total cost of which will be between £25,000 and £55,000, and to build a road across Hobson Bay as part of the railway embankment at a cost of £200,000. Another important work is the paving of the Great North road between the city boundary and Henderson with a. concrete to a width of 18ft. The total cost will he £50,000 or £62,000, according to the route taken. The arts buildings of the Auckland University College are well under way. They are to cost £131,000. For the War Memorial Museum a contract has just been signed, the price bein<» £133,000. A review of public undertakings in progress or about to be started would not, be Complete without reference to the Princes wharf, just completed by the Auckland tT arbour Board. The cost will be *600,000.