HASTINGS BOROUGH WORKS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 6

HASTINGS BOROUGH WORKS

Supplementary Expehditure of £14,000 VARIOUS IMPR0VEMENTS Approximately £14,000 is to be ex- ' pended under the programme arrangied by tbe Hastings Borough Council as supplementary to its ordinary schedule of works for the ncw currentyear. This money, accordmg to a statement made this morning by the Mayor, Mr G. A. Maddison, incluaes the annual payment of about £-1500 from tbe Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board, and the subsidy of £5000 received from the Employment Promotion Board. "The council has conipleted consideration of the work to be undertaken as supplementary to its .ordinary estimates and the works that are to be put in hand to absorb the £5000 subsidy from the Government " said Mr Maddison. "These latter works are to be carried out by unemployed meu registered as relief workers, and they are to receive full award rates of pay. "The supplementary sehedule makes provision lor further permauent roading and construction of additional iootpaths, various iinprovements, extensions and other developmentai work to the borongih reserves, and certain other smali works incidental to the borough reserves, and certsiin other small" works incidental to the borough buildings and-other sefvices," he said. Mr Maddison intimated that within the next few days details as regurd's the full programme would be coihple'ted and would be annblinced. W'ork to be carried out at Cofnwall Park included the removal of the hedges along ltoberts street,' Cornwall road 'ahd Tomoana road. This work would be carried out by relief labour and would cost about £90, of which. the Government subsidy was about £80. The intention of the council was to erect a glass-house and irame, costing about £200, ior the , propagation of annuals and other plants as a nieans of effecting savings in the • purchase of these. from outside sources. "The superintendent of reserves, Mr.J. G. C. McKenzie, has stated that, unless he has the opportunity of propagating young plants, in a borough glassliouse it will be impossible for liiin- to give niass bedding displays," said Mr Maddison. "it. wilL be readily appreciated that mass bedding displays are now considered a pronnnent feature of horticultural displays."- • • The Mayor intimated that the council had also decided to complete the extension of a fountkin-sprinkler w'atering system at the sports ground at

Cornwall Park. This .work would cost approximately £500. "There has been a.long-felt want for some seatingj and other acconmiodation ior thos© using the sports ground at Cornwall Park," said Mr Maddison. "The council has therefore decided to erect, lor the convenience of sports bodies and organisations, a pavilion on the northern side of the tea kiosk." Mr Maddison explained that this building would be of the open type and constructed along the lines of the other masonry work, such as the bridges, and would provide very reasonable seating accommodation. Provision was to be made at both ends of the pavilion for the storage of sports materials, which up to the present havet had to be housed in the implement shed, or conveyed away from the Park altogether. "The cost of this work is estimated at about £350, of which the Government subsidy is about £150," said Mr Maddison. "The work will be done by those men who have done similar stone-masonry work in various parts of our reserves. When the pavilion is • completed I am confident that it will give every satisfaction and be a further big attraction to. this popular borough reserve." Other wOrk to be carried out at Cornwall Park includes the further extension of the bird pens and the provision of accommodation for the parrots, this to be of a more permanent nature than at present. The total amount to be spent on improvements to Cornwall Park under the supplementary works estimates is about £1350, of which there is included a Government subsidy of £255. The detailed estimates are as follow: — Removal of hedgies £90 (subsidy £80), rough-easting interior meu's convenience £14, glass house and l'rames £200, painting tool shed, etc., £37, complete water supply £500, extension of bird pens £90, erection of pavilion £350 (subsidy £175), planting shrubs tamong oaks £20, purchase of birds £25, and purchase of lawn jmowers £16.