GLENMORE ROAD

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 4

GLENMORE ROAD

SPOIL FOR WIDENING PURPOSES.

The Works Committee recommended the City Council last night, to accept the offer of tlie Reserves Department to endeavour to supply spoil from the adjacent hill to fill the gully at Glenmore Street in order that this street may be widened prior to paving. . Councillor W. J.. Thompson (chairman of the Reserves Committee) stated that he had informed the Works Committee that the Reserves Committee wou d have to consider whether they could supply the spoil, as no levels had yet been taken. .. r> Councillor B. G. H. Burn said the Reserves Committee bad never considered the question of supplying spoil for the purpose suggested. . Councillor R. McKeen said he was opposed to any spoil being taken riom the Town Belt. . , Councillor H. D. Bennett said the Works Committee had decided that tl ej could not recommend a road from Glen Road to Glenmore Road, but they glacily accepted the offer of the Reserves Committee to supply spoil to widen Glen“cmincMor J. Burns said they had no nlaving area of any size in the Botanical Gardens, and if the hill n the gardens was taken away it would be a ij necessary improvement, which would not nniv provide a playing area for children but give the council the spoil they required for the widening of Glenmore R. Semple and J. favoured the clause being reteried back to the Works Committee, and moved to th The e Wor said the committees must suits. 1 No tl ' S 7nit°'7S t! ’<’htpinnhle except from areas under the control of Se C SeTommendation of the Works Committee was adopted.