WORK STARTS TO-DAY ON RICCARTON ROAD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18057, 18 January 1927, Page 9

WORK STARTS TO-DAY ON RICCARTON ROAD.

COUNCIL HAS MADE COMPACT WITH BOARD. An arrangement has been arrived at between the Waimairi County Counccil and the Drainage Board whereby tiie work of paving a portion of the Riooarton Road, from Church Corner to Clyde Road, can be proceeded with at once. The contract, recently let by the Waimairi County to the firm of British Pavements, Ltd., includes a short stretch of six chains and three-quarters in the Paparua County, for which that county will pay from the town end of the portion already reconstructed bv that county, to the Waimairi boundary. The total length to be done under the contract is 50} chains, and the approximate area is 6700 square yards. The. contract price works out at 10s 6d per square yard, the total being £3517 10s. After a start had been made some weeks ago. work had to be suspended temporarily, as it was found that the Drainage Board contractor had started operations in the laying"of a sewer. Now, however, work is to be resumed. Mr F. W. Freeman, consulting engineer to the Waimairi County Council, stated yesterday that the work under the contract let by the county to British Pavements, Ltd., would be started to-day, when the levels between Church Corner—the eastern end of the portion of Riccarton Road recently reconstructed by the Paparua County Council—will be taken and supplied to the contractors. The first part of the work to be put in hand is a stretch of six chains and three-quarters, from Church Corner to Hanson's Lane. This is within the Paparua County's boundaries, and that county will repav the Waimairi County for the work done. The portion of the road in the Waimairi County to be relaid extends from Hanson’s Lane to Clyde Road, which is the boundary between the Waimairi County and the Riccarton borough. The 57J chains covered by the present contract will be laid in two-course asphaltic concrete—the same construction as was used in the portion of the road constructed by the Paparua County. The reconstructed portion will IS feet wide. The Drainage Board intends continuing its sewer some few chains westward from Clyde Road, and will not. at present, continue it on to Church Corner, as there is work in connection with its scheme in more densely-populated parts of the city that is more urgent.