HAMILTON STREETS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 204, 17 November 1927, Page 15

HAMILTON STREETS

MARKED IMPROVEMENT PROGRESS OF RELIEF WORKS (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-r day. Daily the Hamilton streets are taking on a transformed apvearance in various parts of the borough, and it is evident that progress recently / made in that direction has beep very substantial. The Frankton area is a centre for quite a number of important works. The railway crossings in the main streets are receiving attention, and the borough engineer is negotiating with the Railway Department with a view to improving the Victoria Road crossing. A work of importance which has just been completed is the bituminising of the railway crossings at Frankton at a cost of £5lO, of which the Hamilton Borough Council’s quota was only about £9O, the Railway Department finding the remainder. A broad, even surface, 250 ft long, has been created. Close by this crossing, at the intersection of Massey and Waterloo Streets, a long-deferred and very essential improvement, is being carried out. The building on the site known as Lafferty’s corner has been moved back 40ft, allowing a wide turn to be made at what was formerly an unsightly and dangerous corner. A bumpy stretch of Massey Street, extending from this corner to Lyon Street, has been remarkably improved, and it is proposed to start sealing 23 chains in bitumen to-morrow. Recognising the expansion in the direction of Whitiora, the borough lias given authority for the widening of Victoria Street five feet on each side of the roadway from Liverpool Street to No. 1 Bridge. The extensive work is estimated to cost £2,600, of which £1,600 is for labour, and it is being carried out solely by relief workers. In Seddon Road, the Government having allocated a subsidy of £ 800, two gangs of 28 men are engaged in alternate shifts, and are making good progress in regrading and metalling 12 chains of road.

In about a month it is anticipated that the Waitewhiriwhiri effluent drain will be in commission, all the 13,500 ft of piping for the sewer being completed. and the outfall to the Waikato River is being constructed.