NORTHCOTE DRAINAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1925, Page 10

NORTHCOTE DRAINAGE.

FURTHER LOAN NEEDED. ' OITf'ALL PIPK SHOiITKNKD. \ Most of the Northcote drainage loan < of £120.000 has been exhausted. A further substantial amount is required ] to complete the installation. The town I eierk suggested to the Horough Council ' hist evening that the poll 011 the pro- , I posal to raise a further drainage loan ' be proceeded xvilh as early as possible. ' There xvas little left in the loan account. ' and if f.iWJO xvas forthcoming from the ! State Advances Department this month, it xvould only suffice for a little more than txvo months. He doubted if the tinal £."i(H)0 xvould be forthcoming from the State Advances Department, and it might be necessary to raise this in the open market. In any case, the money must be forthcoming within three months, xvhich xvould just tide matters over the period necessary tv take the poll and raise the nexv loan. The engineer. Mr. V. K. Powell, reported that the contractors had been working mainly in deep ground since the 1 . holidays, and, aided by the tine weather. 1 ] bad been able to get the pipes laid and < Ihe trenches refilled without trouble. I, Work during the period, included tun- t lielling -'ISO feet, eight manholes, three I j lamphdles. 2MO feet of six-inch pipe, °..s , house connections, and HiOll cubic yards 1 of excavation. 1 The liquifying and storage tanks had : noxv been completed, xvith the exception ; OI the inlet and outlet channels, the ' plastering, ami some pipe-laying and 1 detail xvork. Work had been started at l the pumping station, where a pumping t shaft had been sunk, and preparations ' for excavation 011 the storage well in I hand. A start had also been made on the outfall pipe. II xias found that at the point of outfall required by the JAuckland Harbour Hoard, there' xvns ' aboiil three l'eet of mud on top of the ' rock, and 11s this would probably cause ' silling ii[i at the end of the outfall pipe, opportunity xvas taken io point this out • to the Hoard's engineer, xvho xisited ihe '" site, and consented lo the pipe ending ' about ten feet shirt of the required ' position, at a place win re little mml was " present. The time limit on th,. second , contract expired in October hist, but it was not considered neeessarv i.j enforce ' '•"• provision' of the coinnu-t in xiew of : '.!••• <-XCI-pt'lOlinlly XVI-t v-illler. The coll- ' •". ■ v.r. had been urged Io expedite the I \ ''•oft '1 irinjj il,,- suiniucr. It was de--.mi,!,: i„ |) ttvr ~,,. pumpjuj, sewers eon-' struct.*! during tin- 1i,,,. weather. .More ' iiien were t„ in- put on at ouec. He ! thought tin- Council should grant reasonamc extenmoii 01" time, on i-uiiiniet Xo : -, to allow for the previous bad weather' ' till June next, when ,l„. time for eoniI'let.ol, of So . j con(rai . t _| exercising Ule p „ naUy «>n It was resolved to obtain the Harbour :s"5 infon ," thc •1 -„j _ ? . " ,,t t,u t ouncil considered work should be concentrated on the outfall B e. c tio„ of thp Ml rl . order that th e area alread T \ ,™; « should West as Eoon ■ "a putunc the fa ppera £„! °" b ?