Lower Harbour road repairs needed
to continue to take precautionary measures to combat the disease.
The settlers in the Lower Harbour district are much concerned about the bad state of their road. This road skirts the harbourside from the boundary of Port Chalmers Borough to the Spit.
The surface of the road is not only in a bad state due in some measure to wartime economising, but the waves are encroaching, owing to the defective state of the seawall. Last year the Government was prevailed on to make a grant, and this grant, although small, should have served to repair a portion of the road. A fresh difficulty, however, has since developed, in that no one will enter into a contract to repair the road. Twice the (Waikouaiti) County Council has advertised for tenders without result. The matter has been allowed to rest at that, and the settlers are concerned lest the road become impassable and the waves demolish it in parts. But the settlers
say they see a way to overcome the difficulty. Instead of railing the metal to Port Chalmers and carting it down the harbourside, as has been hitherto done, the metal could more economically be conveyed by means of a punt from the quarry, and discharged at various points along the road. This, the settlers say, is quite a practicable solution, is cheaper than the old train and cart transit, and will, if put into operation by the County Council, remedy a hardship which the ratepayers should no longer have to put up with, now that the war period is over.