Another £300,000

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 583, 8 February 1929, Page 1

Another £300,000

ROADS THIS TIME

CITY COUNCIL MOVE Having spent some four years considering traffic outlets from the centre of the city, the City Council will be asked at its meeting next Thursday to agree to ask the ratepayers to sanction a loan of £300,000 for the purpose of improvements. The decision to recommend this step to tlie council has been made by the Works and Finance Committees, which have taken the position in hand though at the last meeting of the council the Mayor assured the chairman of the- Town Planning Committee that his committee was supposed to be dealing with the outlet question. The four proposals covered in the suggested loan are: Belgium Street: An extension of Queen Street over Karangahape Road in a direct line for Newton Road, where the road would bear to the east into Exmoutli Street, near its junction with New North Road. Day Street: This is calculated to provide an alternative and parallel route to Karangahape Road, and involves connecting Day, Hopetown and Howe Streets, and joining up Pitt Street and Ponsonby Road. Stanley Street: This would be a junction between Stanley Street and the Domain Drive on approximately the line of the footpath leading from the Auckland Bowling Club adjoining the drive near the Domain tea kiosk. Archhill Gully* A junction between Ponsonby and Kingsland, via Commercial Road or Bond Street and involving a bridge across the gully. The Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, states that the recommendation was decided upon at a meeting of the two committees yesterday. The loan would involve the levying of a rate of one penny. The committees thought the Belgium Street and Day Street schemes should be put in hand first, and that £160,000 which it was expected would accrue to the council, on the completion of all the works, from the sale of unwanted land and from betterment, should be used on further schemes of a like nature, to be decided by future councils. With such a sum in hand it would not be necessary for the council’s successors to trouble the ratepayers when funds were required for further improving the city in such directions.