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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1957.
NEW! SHEAFFERS
THEY'RE TAKING THE CURVES
BY GORDON HUNG
FILTER BEDS
LOOKING DOWN.
|LOOKING UP
The above photographs show Bowen Road looking down from the Commodore's House and looking up from just above the present roundabout. A giant block of flats, which can just be seen in the photograph on the right, will mark roughly the conjunction of Bowen Road with Garden Road as it swings round the old roundabout up the hill to
Robinson Road,—(Staff Photographer)
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
OUT OF BOWEN ROAD
Bowen Road, a sinuous This will be one of the sloping stretch of results of the three- stage scheme to give the upper Garden Road junction with the main Peak artery a new look.
road well-known to Peak dwellers on their downward run to office in the morning, is to be straightened out along the length The first stage of the of the filter beds.
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By Air
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By Surface
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Britain
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Garden Road Develop- ment Scheme has been completed and it is expected that the whole project will be finished in June,
The work at the junction of Bowen Road in- volves widening, re- grading and realign- ing the three main approaches and two serving private de- velopments to the new 90 - foot diameter round-about.
8 · Features
Main features of the new development are:
the culverting of Albany Nullah;
✰ a 30-foot wide rotary carriageway;
central
90-foot
diameter round-
а
about;
★ improved
lighting;
street
★ pedestrian crossings;
★ approach
direc-
tional islands with
'Keep Left' bollards;
★ a bus 'pull in';
★ & widening and realignment of the carriageway on the three main ap- proaches with foot- paths on either side of the roads.
Four lanes.
The
The round-about will be 1 in 10 while Bowen Road leading to Magazine Gap will be 1 in 74 compared with the present gradient of 1 in 10.
The effect of straighten- ing out Bowen Road is that part of the filter beds, which are now not in use, will be cut away and a cutting slope with chunam
NEW LOOK FOR GARDEN ROAD
When the scheme is
finished the widened Bowen Road will have lost its bends and be practically a straight road with one slight bend from the round- about to the Com- modore's House.
facing (chunam is one part shell lime mixed with five parts red earth) will be con- structed.
Government has not made any plans yet for the filter beds but it is thought that this
APPROXIMATE POSITION OF THE NEW ROAD
Feathertouch BALLPOINT
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
Man Of Substance
THE
HE struggle had been' a long...one, but now, 'at lost, it was over, and Dennis had reached what he felt to be near enough to millionalte rating for the difference to make no odds.
valuable land site will be sold to the public. At the moment the beds are being filled with the soil obtained from various sites on the beer barons of Texas, and
the project.
To his mind ho was all one with the Greek tanker kings,
the all sheikhs of the Middle East,
converted that into
4,200
With the preparatory
work of
He had amassed the startling stage one frightening sum of £50 in sav completed in which ings. The Greek might have there was no disrup- drachma, the Texan into 140 tion of traffic, stage dollars, the Middle East man
1 two will be the con- into 520 riyals. struction of part of Dennis converted most of his
£50 into whisky at an the roads while stage three is the completion of the whole scheme,
EX-
change rate of about 11.4 glasses to the £.
HEADACHES
ALL richts bring headaches,
The Public Works AL as all poor men know, Department hopes to and none bring fiercer head
than those in- complete the bulk of aches faster
vested as Dennis invested his. the carriageway work There were mornings, many in May,
mornings, When be wiened that he were poor again, and wheD,
OLD ROUNDABOUT AND PART OF
THE NEW ROUNDABOUT
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Japan, a.m.
Thalhed, Malaya, N, Borneo, In- donesia, Australia,, New Zealand, de Ceylon, 11 am.
Philippines 2 pm.
Thailand
Africa,
0 p.m.
india Middie East
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On completion
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four lanes of traffic.
thero was one morning inevitably, he awoke. to ind that wish had come true. *~*
The
ТУДЯ reality
far less pleasant than the dream, for Dennis found himself without money and with a legacy of thirst that demanded antiisfuc- tion. He was not too proud to beg, and, begging, he wa caught.
At Clerkenwell, he pleaded guilty to the crime,
A
EX-POLICEMAN
POLICEMAN. told the ma gistrato, Mr. Frank - Powell, something of Dennis's life story. He spoke of the "250, savings, earned in ten weeks' work at the docks, then went jou: Up to 1938 he was in the Irish police force,"
"Why did you leave the police?" Mr Powell, asked Den-
nia,
"Aw, I was foo fond of the drink, and I suppose. they got fed up with me" Dennis said, with a forgiving smile, 'ra
"Well,
certainly 4 drunk policeman is no uso even in Iraland," aald the magistrate. This time. "Til discharge you conditionally."
#Foine,
nisine, zor, foine" said Den- and he strode mightily away to make his fortune all over again
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