BRIDGES AND ROADS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 10

BRIDGES AND ROADS.

7i* V*" *jy ',up '!* t'/f Vi, :* ¥^ t v / * *' f r important WORKS NOW * ■>'?,.> ? ' .(• 'wV IN^pii|A'^' SOUTH ROAD. I ' ' " ' | Several important road and , liridge works are at present undertaken in' Canterbury under the jurisdiction of the Public Works' Dep#rtmspt. .•; "The Levels County Counpil has' been authorised to accept a tenter for the sealing of four < wiles roa d on the' main highway north of Tiwnrw. The Council has also been rei ouested to prepare plans and specifwsU tions for the sealing of the remainder of the distance —thrSe miles .jind 65 chains—towards the county boundary at th(» Opihi river bridge. When*. thi« work is done there* will be a surfaced road between Timaru and the Bangui fata.' " The whole of :the reconstruction'is being subsidised £3 for £l, by the Main Highways Boar#. „ From Ashfciurton north to Droraore— 1 a distance of seven and three-quarter njiles—the road has in ' preparation for surfacing. Th§ ttoee-copt sealing, is again'to; be used,' and' proposals hare been. prepared'ant* submitted to.the Main Highways Board .flpproyal. ; ' ' The, bituminous fieal»Dg i of - Maruht Jjm4. '■fWSa recently. - complete under £2 for 421 subsidy from the Main

taQtQjb 1$ Arrangements. ' - Proposals aw,'flow being made, tor the paving jfn 'concrete of the road from., Chanoy'a .to the AVaimaliariri brifl&B approach. There ha& keen a jiitch in-the financial 1 arrangements tween the Waimniri- County Cp«pci! and the. Highways Board Imk»w ; rf the increased lengtfc of highway 'w|sejj made ttr <ihe county throng lo'oatidfc oltji® new > . fho Kow/vl CounciF'Mfceonteioplated .(surfacing. Ashley rfyfir' to h view'of the fin antral depression, it hoi been UtyuHcil to ppstpono.tUe t>velve\niontli6. >•„ ~ >W!» « Tl» Count»>. C&tißCijMjti Vjps; bjfrtpff ii* n ° | fcr