HIGHWAYS CONSTRUCTION
LEVEL CROSSINGS TO GO RECOMMENDATION TO BOARD Elimination of six level railway crossings is contemplated in the wcrK planned at yesterday’s annual meeting of the No. 8 District Highways Coun•‘lt is refreshing to note the type of work which is being contemplated, said the chairman ot the council, Mr. I’. Keller, district Public Works «‘iigi uecr Stratford. •*Elimination of level crossings is surely a progressive inuv a. The council decided to recommend to the Highways Board that a sum oi £I‘J,SUO be spent on crossings with'n the No. d (Wanganui) district this year on work which is estimated to cost £JJ.2t>U. The crossings affected Kai Iwi <£6500), £3UOO recommended. Waiouru (£3560), £3SOU ivcoinmended (dev ration of road to be made in this case). Vinegar Hill (£SIVO), £3OOO rccuiiim ended. Cliff Road station (£u000 ; , EJOUO recommended. Ball Ruud (£5560 £3000 recommended. Bunny Glen (£6SoU), £lOOO recommended. (The figures in parentheses represent the total sums applied fur in respect tu the various items of work.) It was explained by Mr. W. M->iri->on. a member of the Main Highways Board, that it was originally intended that the tost of erecting these m;A over-bridge;-, or putting through eliminating deviations, would be borne by the L nempluyinvut IU-ai'L the Hig“uavs Board and the Railways Board. I he Unemployment Board was now out of it and the cost would be borne by the Highways Board am! the railways —two thirds by the highways and the remaining third J > t 'n * • :a:i'-v ays.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 8
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248HIGHWAYS CONSTRUCTION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 8
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