WOOD BLOCKING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 8

WOOD BLOCKING

SOME WORKS IN PROSPECT, Several pieces of wood-blocking in busy streets of' the City will shortly be done ,by the City Engineer's staff. The spots are at the entranco to Parliament Buildings grounds at the footof Bowen Street, tlio junction of Riddiford Street and Rintoul Street in Newtown, and the part of Fcatlierston Street where the taxi-cabs now draw up. • The Mayor informed a. reporter yesterday that the laying of wood blocks at the foot of Bowen Street over a sufficient area to give a clear' entrance to the now gates .of Parliament. Buildings would bo put in hand at once. The intention of the City Engineer, had been to hold over all the street improvement work in the vicinity of Parliament' grounds until all the Government scliomo 'was completed, when the work could have been all done at once, but thcro had been .so much delay 'about the working out of the Government's plans that-now it would be necessary to. do the work in sections. Unfortunately the Post and Telegraph Department had ripped up a bit of wood-blocking at tlio bottom of Boycn Street recently,, and they had also- torn up some ,of the newly-laic?' Macadam surface in the street.. It would be impossible to, do permanently the .wood-blocking at the bottom. of the street until Quinton's Corner was laid back to its proper alignment, and then the blocking would have to be relaid to give fall for surface water into the channels. It was the intention of the engineer, however, to dc all in his power to have the road surface at the Parliament grounds gates wood paved before the opening of Parliament. As to the other .works mentioned the difficulty was in securing suplies of blocks, but specifications were in preparation for the supply of blocks for the Featherston Street work, and tenders would in all probability be called shortly. • - •