3.36 WATERWORKS OF EAST LONDON. 



Main Arterial Roads, and the Moving of the E.B. Native Location. 



The Town Council have not yet taken this matter into serious con- 

 sideration, but it is hoped that both they and the ratepayers will very 

 shortly do so. The report reads as follows : — " I take the opportunity of 

 suggesting that the time has arrived when you may very well consider the 

 removing of the location to the west bank; naturally it is a matter of 

 which some years' notice would have to be given. This would enable you 

 to town plan the area on the east bank of the river and northwards as 

 far as Amalinda and Cambridge. The site of the present location 

 absolutely prevents extension of the town in this direction. It is highly 

 desirable that you should make accessible that part of the town for future 

 extensions, and it is to be hoped that it will become imperative within the 

 next few years. Main arterial roads would have to be laid down and the 

 areas in between contoured, so that the lots could be laid out in such 

 a manner as to make proper provision for drainage and orientation and 

 gradients of streets. I should suggest that the first of these roads would 

 begin at the park end of Park Avenue, cross the first creek in the vicinity 

 of the Boer Camp, and follow the top of the watershed as far as the 

 main road to the Amalinda village. Ultimately the following roads could be 

 laid down : — 



" No. 2 would cross the Amalinda and the Umzoniana on to the high 

 ground between Lower Amalinda and the Buffalo River, afterwards it 

 could be extended through Upper Amalinda skirting the proposed new 

 reservoir as far as Wilsonia. 



" No. 3 would lead from the vicinity of the Boer Camp to the bridge 

 over the Buffalo River. 



" No. 4 would be the extension of the Eastern Esplanade via Bats'' 

 Cave to the Nahoon Mouth, and thence through Stanmore to the Nahoon. 



"The length of these roads is approximately as under: — 



No. I. 2.701 miles. 



No. 2, 7.102 miles. 



No. 3, 0.947 mile. 



No. 4, 2.486 miles. 



I exhibit a plan showing these proposed roads. 



" I do not suggest that the time has arrived for macadamising these 

 roads, but a commencement could be made in grading them off and making 

 them into good country roads. Trees could also be planted. A great deal 

 could be done if a reasonable sum were voted each year. I need not 

 point out what delightful motor drives they would make; moreover, the 

 one via Wilsonia would make accessible the second creek and Green 

 Point. 



" The area I would suggest being appropriated for the native loca- 

 tion and the Indian and coloured people's village is that lying between 

 the Buffalo River and the main road to Kingwilliamstown, bounded on 

 the south-east by the present West Bank location, and on the north-west 

 by the Municipal boundary. It is in extent about 500 acres, and it could 

 be planned out in such a way as to allow both the Indian and coloured 

 peonle and natives to develop along their own lines. I would suggest 

 that the Council put up model buildings for these people, which I am 

 sure would yield a very fair return on the capital expenditure, and enable 

 them to live in thoroughly sanitary surroundings, which is so desirable, 

 not alone on account of their health, but on account of the health of 

 the white community whose servants they are. 



"To the roads mentioned I would add one via the present pumping 

 station through Fort Grey Forest to the main road to Kingwilliamstown 

 just above the 5th mile post. This road would traverse the public estate 

 and would be about 3^ miles long. It would open up country of great 

 natural beauty." 



