Wellington City intends going in for nn improvement scheme valued at three-quarters of a million, if the ratepayers sanction a loan for this purpose in April. The main items are for paving footpaths, street works, water and drainage, libraries and reserves. Paving in bitumen will account for about £150,000, and tar sealing over £-10,000, this work covering forty streets for paving and 50 for surface sealing. Inclusive of footpaths, this work'will total up to something approaching £200,00(1 A sum of something like £30,000 will probably appear on the schedule for water and drainage for Miraimar and Melrose, with £IO,OOO to £12,000 for sewage-pumping machinery. A sum of £25,000 is to be asked for to provide conveniences and a disinfecting - station, and library alteration:-; and additions on the list will require another £60,000.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3611, 10 March 1927, Page 1
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