THE SANATORIUM ROAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4544, 16 December 1930, Page 2

THE SANATORIUM ROAD.

WORK COMMENCED. Yesterday Mr. H. V. Bond (engineer to the Manawatu County Council) and, a survey,? gang’ pegged out the new road to be put through the Sanatorium giving sale access to the beach, and this morning' a gang of ten local unemployed started work on the formation. I'n conversation? with our representative .Mr. Bond said that the load would be, completed and metalled by the end of January. Tomorrow he would be able to put on twenty men and from that date on until the completion of the work gangs of twenty would be employed alternately in order to give a fair proportion of employment to every man out- of wort in Foxton. Oil this job as at Tangimoana, where a mile and a quarter road was being constructed under his supervision, the Woiik| would|be, carried out by Foxton unemployed. The road at the local seaside continues practically'in ii straight line from the main road a short distance past the concrete bridge. From its junction with the maiu road to the old pilot residence in the Sanatorium the formation work lias already been done by the Fusion. Harbour Board and--froni there on to Mr. Alsop’s residence the surface is good. The main work is front there on as. the road takes a straight line from Mr.. -Alsop’s right out on to the bed ever sevoral chains., of. loose; sarnl hill's. Unless the winds at present being experienced cease however, Mr. Bond anticipates trouble with drift sand once the surface of the hills is cleared. The hills will not he lowered more than six feet and life Toad wilt ffse s at a."gentle gradient tb the top'* a lid then drop down to the old river flat-. The • H«Hit>m**®Pal , 'd‘'lfarluen on improving - the ■‘access'' to the liver foreshore' ffdat, the' Post ; Office s Uriv. wh ere '-tiro ' ’cutting ’ 1 is being clayed 'and •niairntka "fencek-'erec-ted to see- 'if will' "kdep the roadway dear? “ of' ~ siand’. 1 This access should be irngbod order for the holiday season. --■ u '' As the Aii the-Sauatoriuin Road l iver bed end it will not be- of very much 1 use* until; after 1 iOhristmas.