CABBAGE-TREE SWAMP

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 308, 20 March 1928, Page 8

CABBAGE-TREE SWAMP

DESOLATE WASTE NOW BEING DRAINED Soon Cabbage Tree Swamp will bonly a memory. As the name of tit desolate Mount Albert waste indicate it is not a pleasant place, Ttes, res: dents found to their cost last wmie: when, at one period, their isecaorwere covered in water sufficiently dee to allow one householder to catch from his veranda. Within a few weeks, however, th* swamp will be drained and AucMurrains will no longer give cause for alarm to apprehensive residents of tfi. area. Commencing at the head of Parrish Road a large drain now rarthrough the swamp and will short discharge into Meola Creek near tfc Mount Albert School. Since tai'ir, over the sub-contract in December, the sub-contractor, Mr. G. Cameron. pushed the work through in recor. time. Tunnelling under the Edendaitram line, Mr. Cameron and his mtr aided by air compressors and otter modern equipment, have bored tl«ir way through the heart of the awmoi Four long tunnels were necessary, ©if. 500 feet in length, runs under a number of houses in Troonrille Aveou* This was pushed through in stem weeks, and a Sun man who walke-i through a section this morning fouxe the men busily engaged in the ftni work of concreting the channel Mr. Cameron, who was employed at Otira Tunnel, the Lake Coleridge Hydro scheme, and on other big contracts, and who has had considerable experience in this difficult and hazardous work, stated that the going was pa--ticularly hard, most of the country where the tunnelling had to be dc:-' being composed almost solely of solid rock or boulders. The total length of the work to done under this contract, which filet to Mr. Trevor Dibble, civil eng* neer, is 69 chains, and it is consider 1 : that it will be completed early in May.