BOROUGH WORKS

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2146, 19 April 1928, Page 5

BOROUGH WORKS

ENGINEER'S REPORT.

Mr W. D. R. McCurdie presented the following report tothe works committee last Saturday, and it was read and adopted at Monday's meeting of the Borough Council:— Brady Street has been metalled and asphalted from Kihikihi Road to "the Young Street junction, and some distance past the"junction to provide for proper curvature all ways and to serve the house on the north side of. the street near the junction. This is all that was proposed in the original schedule for the carriage-way in this street.

The junction with Brady Street to Young Street, which has given so much trouble in the past through the motor traffic taking the sharp turn, has been apshalted all the way and about a chain up Young Street. There should be no more maintenance trouble at this junction in future. The bend near Mr J. B. Wilson's residence, some way up the street, has been continually breaking up under the motor traffic, and has been asphalted according to the Council's recent instruction, and iiinow a permanent job also. ThJ& .-.rhoie of Mangapiko Street, from ' : u Street to Tawhiao Street, has bpiftop-dressed with asphalt. At the junction with Tawhiao Street provision has been made for passing the flood water across an asphalted dip to the river, and the junction has been properly rounded off in asphalt. Tawhiao Street has been metalled from the junction of Mahoe Street to about half way to Alexandra Street. At the Alexandra Street junction the sudden rise in the grade has been smoothed off. Kerbing and channelling have been laid round both corners into Alexandra Street, so that at the junction asphalt will be laid up to the kerbs, making a suitable entrance to this road for racecourse and all other traffic. The flood water will be taken across a very gentle dip. At' the junction with Mahoe Street, -and for a chain or two. above, last year's metal was ravelling .badly. This has been smoothed down with the roller and top-dressed with asphalt. From the power station to Mahoe Street the metal is standing the traffic very well, but it should be swept and top-dressed like Mangapiko Street as soon as funds can be provided. On 10th April the deputy-Mayor (Cr Spinley) and the works committee chairman (Cr Montefiore) met on the ground and decided that the propsed asphalting of the south footpath of Alexandra Street should be widened from six feet to nine feet, towards the gutter, from Mutu Street to College Street, and that from College Street to the railway station gate it be widened right to the kerbing. This work is now being undertaken. Where the path is faulty along the building line asphalt will stop, as previously decided, two feet from the building line, but where shops are built that will give stability to the path, and keep the asphalt from breaking, it is proposed to asphalt up to the walls of the buildings. . . ' . Mr Farrer's retaining wall m Bank Street, built of concrete and brick, began to fall into the street to the danger and annoyance of pedestrians. The wall, has been removed and made safe at his expense. The roof water from the pig pens; at the municipal. sale yards is complained of by those persons using the sheep pens. It is proposed to carry the water to the ditch in a dram of damaged 6-inch pipes. The cost will be small, and it will put an end to this inconvenience.

The laying of all necessary sewers in Goodfellow Street and Leith Street in Finlay's sub-division has now been finished. There remains one man-hole and the back-filling of the excavation in Goodfellow Street, which will be finished next week. All work in Leith Street has been done. Frontagers along the Mangahoe Stream have been notified under the Land Drainage Act to clear the bank 10 feet back from flood level so that our section may be ready for the Drainage Board to clear the bed of the creek under the agreement between the Borough Council, the County Council, and the Board.