STREET SEALING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21677, 11 June 1940, Page 4

STREET SEALING

Work To Be Done Decision Of Council The Timaru Borough Council last night decided that the following streets should be treated under the street preparation and sealing vote of £1387. Complete Heaton Street 383 Craighead Street 216 Kitchener Square (west side) .... 170 Wright's Avenue Ashbury Avenue Wai-iti Avenue 123 Branscombe Street 60 Princess Street 103 In the above streets, from Craighead Street down, it is proposed that they should ba prepared and a priming coat only applied this year, leaving the actual sealing to a later date. With reference to Branscombe Street, there is an additional estimated cost cf £72 necessary for putting in an additional kerb and channel, and building up the grass margin on the north side. An amendment that the first sealing on William Street be clone this season was defeated by five votes to four. Resurfacing Programme In reference to resurfacing it was decided that the following list submitted with the estimates, with the exception of Evans Street, should be done out of this vote, the estimated expenditure being £1868: Stafford Street— £ Woollcombe St. to George St. 231 Sefton St. to Wai-iti Road .. 385 Heaton St. to Browne St. .. 116 Church Street — Bank St. to Stafford St 250 Evans Street— White St. to Waimataitai St. 1001 King Street— Catherine St. to Queen St. .. 289 Wai-iti Road— LeCren St. to Evans St. .. 481 George Street— Stafford St. to Station St. .. 116 £2839 Street Re-sealing—Vote of £l7OO It was decided that Church Street should receive the major portion of this vote. Cr. J. S. Satterthwaite said he did not consider that the spending of the major portion of the vote on one street was equitable. The Council had cut out the whole of its footpath programme, but he t.’ ought a portion of the vote should be expended in streets which had no footpaths. Cr. W. H. Hall said that the engineer should be given authority to expend the vote to the best advantage. An amendment was moved by Cr. Kinsman and seconded by Cr. Richards, that £lOOO be spent on Church Street, the remaining £7OO to be spent on tar sealing footpaths, the programme to be approved by the Council. The amendment wa.s defeated b/ five votes to four and the report was adopted.