RICCARTON ROAD.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 8

RICCARTON ROAD.

iMORE RECONSTRUCmoJ CONTRACT LET BY WAljuj COUNTY. A further step in the reconstrw* of Riccarton road has been dwl upon by the Wairnain County qM which has let a contract, to ]j& Pavements, Ltd . to pave the pwg of the road within the boundary rfl county. This mean- ;ha: the p»« laid down last year by the Puhj County Council will be wards the City. Cfcii Corner to Clyde road. possibility that the Rictarfim Boil Council will decide to reconstruct portion of the road under its jomj tion. "3jj The contract recf-tly let bjit\ Waimairi County n<-h;des a.4 stretch of six chains ;md Three-quajf in the Paparua County, for whicgf County will pay from the town ead the portion already reconstractidj that county, to the AVaimairi bounJj The total length to be done undSj contract is oQI chains, and the"! proximate area i< 6700 square «j The contract pric works out afj txl per square vard. the total la £3517 10s. * ; ~

A start was made with the v« few days ago. but operations have; to be suspended as the the Drainage Board, who is lig a sewer on the portion of the rnj be reconstructed, has started n tions. and the road work probahW be held up. But for this it t* hare been finished by the end month. J

Just at present- it is uncertain « the work will be finished, as ifcl take some time for The dran trench to settle after being filletF

Like the portion of the CEristehsS Dunedin main highway already M structed by the Paparua Connty.l portion to be done by the Wang County will be a two course •spU concrete road. 18 feet wide. xS

will be a sunken kerb on each six inches deep, gradually decf as it is extended into the paw to two and a half inches—the thj of the greater area of the structed roadway. The object < kerb is to prevent the pavement ing laterally.