AUCKLAND MUNICIPAL HANDBOOK
road, leading from the high level road connecting with Nelson Street, formed.
Fanshawe Street, from its intersection at Nelson Street to Victoria Park, was increased in width to 100 feet, and from that point northward an extension of Fanshawe Street was constructed as far as Beaumont street. The total cost of carrying out these improvements was £46,646.
In connection with this series of undertakings the Harbour Board was able to assist, by arranging for the transfer of lessees' interests from property required for street purposes to other portions of the Board's property.
The waterfront on the eastern side of Queen Street has also been improved. The improvements were made possible in the first place by the reclamations carried out by the Harbour Board and secondly by the co-operation of the Board and the Railway Department with the City Council. Prior to the alterations being undertaken, Quay Street practically finished at Breakwater Road. A new road, named King's Drive, 100 feet wide, now continues Quay Street in a straight line to the cliff at Campbell's Point. In the course of the work connected with this scheme, the old locomotive sheds were removed to an adjacent locality.
Another improvement was carried out in conjunction with the Railway Department: Mechanic's Road, a narrow tortuous street, being converted into a bold curved roadway, 100 feet wide, and renamed the Strand.
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