OUTSTANDING WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 10

OUTSTANDING WORK

JN ROCK FOR PERMANENCE

Branching from the Hutt Eoad is a hillside roadway- which is being widened, as a relief work. Spoil cut from the bank above 'is wheeled down the roadway.and dumped behind a wall of unconventional type. ■ Probably -this wall is most fairly described as a leaning rotten ruck gravity wall, for nothing but • the weight of the irregular lumps of iroek-holds it together.' The design:is'so""unusual, in fact),* that, regular on "the road have wagered for and against the wall slipping away when the first real winter rain saturates the tons of loose clay and broken rock against which the wall rleans.

Those who formorly fancied the chances of' the wall seeing the winter through are now regretting their recklessness, for during the weekend two; promising slips (there were two ' after previous rain) came down and will have to be shovelled and piled back again this week. ;

It is not to be denied, however, that in this the wall does possess a distinct virtue, of assisting in the provision of work. Had no wall at all been built even more work would have been assured, but this might have been adversely commented upon and so a happy medium was struck. The idea is perhaps worthy of attention by the city engineers; who so far have been inclined to favour walls that stay put.