WORKS PROGRESS

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3271, 12 March 1931, Page 5

WORKS PROGRESS

WITHIN THE BOROUGH. ENGINEER’S REPORT TO WORKS COMMITTEE. The following report on works progress during, the fortnight ended 3rd March was submitted to the works committee meeting on that date, and recommended to Monday evening’s meeting of the Borough Council for adoption:— Brady and Palmer Streets: The formation work in these two streets has been finished by unemployed labour. The fencing in some places has yet to be replaced. Pirongia Road: Work was begun here, and will be pushed on as opportunity offers. The kerbing should be laid, if funds make it possible, from the railway line to Pakura Street. The distance is 24 chains, and the cost will be £2 a chain for material and £2 a chain for labour. The Council will have to find £4B. It is much, recommended that this work be authorised.

Corporation Tip: A start has been made in filling along the tip frontage, so that trees may be planted next winter to keep the tip sheltered from public view until it is filled. Mr O. O’Brien is giving material, and Te Awamutu Farmers’ Institute promises more near by. Asphalt Work: All the heavy asphalting in Carlton Street and at the Jackson Street-Brady Street junction has been done. Some of the footways have to be top-dresesd, and some repairs to roads and footways have yet to be done. Mutu Street-Alexandra Street Junction: The work of laying metal from Alexandra Street to the bends in Mutu Street both ways for asphalting full width to the kerb on both sides is in hand.

Mutu Street Stock Road: The formation work on this stock track from Mutu Street to the yards through the old redoubt is now in hand. The Mayor and the chairman of the works committee decided on the ground that the course of the stock road should be as follows: From Mutu Street, straight across from the end of Mangapiko Street into the redoubt by a continuation of Mangapiko Street in straight line; the stock route to be a chain wide at the Mutu Street boundary fence, and to contract to half a chain about the middle of the redoubt. An angle to the right will be here. _ Continue from this angle, or a line_ to cross the creek above the pumping station. This line to be taken with due consideration for the main sewer, which will run beside the road excavation, and for the sewer running from Alexandra Street to the pumping station, and for the line of power poles along the route.