CAROLINE BAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12143, 11 August 1903, Page 3

CAROLINE BAY.

The Caroline Bay improvement scheme was given another lift forward by the Borough Council last night, a plan ot work to be done :being adopted, and the Mayor was authorised to call a public meeting to lay before the ratepayers a proposal to borrow £2500 for the purpose of carrying out the scheme. It was resolved to utilise the meeting fni' the purpose of explaining the scheme for raising a loan for the purpose of grading streets to the levels adopted by the Council. The report and plan / submitted by Mr' F. W. Marchant indicate that the clay cliffs are to be cut down to the level of the railway for a length of about 13 chains, i.e., from near the old bath to where the .old improvement work begins; the bank to be sloped back to the railway, and a fence to be run, if permission is obtained, close to the railway. This would give a promenade at the railway level, outside of which the bank would be sloped off to the tramway track, this however to be widened to 15ft.. Of the clay removed, part is to be used in making a. second embankment or terrace under the rocks, and the rest spread over the sand '3ft deep, from the old bath to the Whale's Creek viaduct, a length of about- 19 chains, •the width of the filling ranging generally from 50ft to 100 ft, but widening to 150 ft near the viaduct, and averaging about 70ft. The clay to be shifted measured about 12,000 cubic yards. It is proposed to face the clay with a rubble wall to-pi event ■ it being washed away by the sea at high tide in stormy weather. Timber facing had been suggested, but the engineers preferred rubble. The embellishment works include an avenue of trees on the lower clay terrace, and a fringe of trees in front of the rocky face ;■ a tea-room, with ladies' cloak room, on the present artificial terrace, in front of that a band stand, outside the latter, on a projection in the line of reclamation, a rockery-faced pond and fountain ; a caretaker's cottage to be placed near the viaduct, with shrubbery or rockery on one side, and a flower garden under* the bank on the other; u number of rough seats under the trees and elsewhere; soiling, glassing, and fencing to be provided required. The estimate submitted was as follows ; Excavation and embanking, 12,000 yds, £1050; rubble facing (timber would cost about the same). 600 yds of rubble at 10s, £300; fencing on the railway for upper promenade, £2O; tree and shrub planting, rockery work, and seatipg, £lso;;'tea and clpakrooni} lavatory accommodation, £4OO ; water services and drainage, £lO0 l ; band stand, £300; fish pond and fountain, £75; caretaker's dwelling, £250; sundry paths, .'ences, and minor improvements. £130; contingencies and supervision, £200; total, £2965. ;

The Council last night were disinclined to accept the leport, plan and estimate, exactly as they stood, as will be seen, from our report of the Council's meeting, and eventually it was agreed that they shall be taken to indicate in a .general, not' an exact-! way what it is proposed to do. ' • ;