BOROUGH WORKS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 51, 22 October 1931, Page 4

BOROUGH WORKS

w .f engineer's report * "STREET MAINTENANCE .,>U t . • • » • n i\ ' ' The borough engineer, Mr. F. C. Buny^rd, submitted the following report'tupon1- wdrks 'cnrried brit'iri „the borough during the period ending September 30, to last pight's meeting Of- ' Jthe" -RdtGrua - Bororigh' - • Council :i— V Metallih'g j aricf ^radihg1 Had "been ca^ietPbut ih'-Maifro^- RSad w e£t; Peferiipa - StceSt, ':Ofd -Taupo 'Rbrid,'anl Vidfdria1 Strebt. GhahrieTs had - been trMftied tfp iri Easoiy Toko,- Ruihi ariS^fi&ewihi Stredts. hevon Slreet rites -'b'elrig, pumieedCfrom-tK© Friiitori aM'ct' ''the— westeariu' -feri'd, J)&t'ched"tefadV bladed -ov'e'K''"* 'Eruera Street, -west? of-ltahplf ' Streetj5- ' 'hdd b4eft;^leM^a,ygidbbe^! arid- ploughed reWylf6tr|ormIflg,'U^ . '"U m '"Fpot^aths h'dai5 bebn cleaned up in Tbko,NEasbh, Uriiorii •" Heretvini • arid Rhihi Jjtfgets. In'Victoria Strbet, the southerriside ha'd beeri' cleaned "up ahd rOprili? dd: ' * The '• east feidfe of ' Ranolf Strd4tj' betwdCn Ambhau1 and Arawa Stfefets had be£n ievelle'd of? arid-'pu-micedk The south side of Whakaue Stteel be|#een sFentbff- andt 'Tutanelcai '^treri^M'had1 "been cbafed1 '' wTth aSsfetai|* Rites arid iri "Fhnton" Str eet' the f oothpath'bn 'the ivekt side was; being rep*air£d* on 'the fedges of 'the bitrimen, A Alf; tta^ic signs had been repaired and paihtecf arid'the1* timbbr 'woTk and dpout^igf'at3 the Vi'ctoria Institute rejiati'f 4d * and' strengtlieried. Contracts for transjJortirig '^tripping froiii the qua'rry tbT the lake'friorit ' ha'd been dompleted ari'd also/ the coKtract for transporting tree stumps f rbrii ' FOnton *Stfeeto:« .1 .*r . r.> «' '"The^balance of trees from the old Gemetery Nursery and- th'Ose omorder had 'been-. plarited out'in the new ntlrseiy. •^•Thfe^tfe'e's included 1000 LawSonia^ias1, 1 100 Cordyline • Indiyisa, 50!Pape^ Birch', '100 Fittospbrum,- -100 lfydra'^ige^s,i"'50 Pklms; 50 Ghestnuts afi.dp^feygr'aT odd tf'ees.*1- : ' 1 One borough employee and one "trUck'dfiVer had beeh-'engaged plant-ihg'-nati^e 'trfees- under 'Mr.- -Tschbpp,s directibnl - The 'eentrdl plot§ in1 Tryon Street were also being constructed by5the abbre staff ahd relief •labotir. Caretakers at the native villages had' cdrried* out' their work shtisfact(5rily.:> Afc' Whakarewarewa a gen'eral1 clean « up was- made', 'some additionaf 1 d-felief t-lah our - b eing pr o vided. '-'At: Ohinemutu the- improVeihent schem.e''Was hearing' completion. 'The'portion of -rbad hetween' 'Otonga pokd 'and' the north boundary of sec» tions>..b3v aSildu. 56 ■•abave -Mr.. Robertson's farm lfwas almost -completed. Sufficiept fppnii.ce wns found im the Cxdavations fo give- the whole length of road a1 gobd'.coating. An ' area "of jabout •• one acre had been'. prephred near- the drill shed' in Amohhti- ^Street, and about four acres were being prepared "in' the cemet'ery; resbrVe, *in connection;with 'the Hhemployed- cofnmunity- 'garden scheme.';:, •*' ' - v-* » -*• • . -• '•■In Ranolf Street south between SobhiavStreet and "Devon Street, all trebs :had been felled- and cut • irito p'ost^ Dr'fire^vood.1 • ' i'^'In-Tryon ^treet. f ormation had been completed on ;th£ north end. Excavations had been'- made for native ffee'sV." "At "tlie: " Sbutherri 'ehd centr al TrlotslWere being -Constructed.