CURING AN EYESORE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 12

CURING AN EYESORE

IMPROVEMENTS TO CORPORATION YARDS

A 66FT. ROADWAY FROM CABLE ST. TO CLYDE QUAY

The condition of the corporation yards at Clyde Quay has been considerably improved during the last two years, and the City Council has consented to a further improvement that is sooner or later going to effect a wonderful change in the whole block. It was never considered likely that Cable Street could be continued straight through to Clyde Quay in a direct line, because of the existence of the destructor and its huge reinforced concrete chimney stack, which lay in the way, so that when the council put up its new stores (in brick) the building was erected in Chaffers Street, right across the eastern end of Cable Street; but the scheme of improvement to which the council has agreed will provide for the continuance of Cable Street through to Clyde Quay by the formation of a street . 66ft. wide that will take a north-easterly direction, and will extend obliquely from the end of Cable Street to the corner of the corporation property closest io the entrance to the Clyde Quay Wharf. It will be a thoroughfare calculated to give relief to Courtenay Place and Wakefield Street. The formation of this street may call for the removal or alteration of some of the existing buildings, but in one instance the roof of an obstructing buildinn lias been so made that it can be lifted off and used again elsewhere without very great difficulty. Very little can be done in the direction indicated this year.

There is also the possibility of a substantial slice of the Clyde Quav frontage of the yards being converted into a road improvement. ' The old corrugated iron fence and buildinns along the eastern boundary of the block are of verv little value, and without a great deal of expense it is thought that a strip between thirty and forty feet in denth tnav be converted into roadway, with provision for a strin of lawn between the footpath and the traffic road.

ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. Dominion Special, Christchurch, November 22. A claim for ' damages arising out of a motor collision on a country road came before Mr. Justice Stringer and a jury of twelve at the Supreme Court to-day for the second time. At the previous hearing the jury .failed to agree. Harold Arthur Thorne, of llororata, farm labourer, sued Jack Olliver, of Hororata, farmer, for £462 Us. fid. special damages, and £5OO general damages on account of a collision at the corner of Morgan’s Road and Cordy's Road, near Hororata. on March 21, 1925. Thorne was riding a motor-cycle, and Olliver was driving a motor-car. Thorne alleged that Olliver drove negligently, causing Thorne to stiffer a compound fracture of the right leg. aud other injuries. After lengthy evidence had been heard, the case was adjourned till to-morrow.