  The Gilbert type bound for codes in the title is reviewed, both for small and
large alphabets. Constructive lower bounds better than these existential bounds
are derived from geometric codes, either over Fp or Fp2 ; or over even degree
extensions of Fp: In the latter case the approach is concatena- tion with a
good code for the Hamming metric as outer code and a short code for the Lee
metric as an inner code. In the former case lower bounds on the minimum Lee
distance are derived by algebraic geometric arguments inspired by results of
Wu, Kuijper, Udaya (2007).
