WATER SUPPLY BOARD.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10882, 5 February 1901, Page 2

WATER SUPPLY BOARD.

The Waimakariri-Ashley Water Supply. I Board met on the 31st January. Present— | Messrs Horrell {Chairmen), Dixon, Chap* | man and Lance. The Board placed on re- i cord its extreme sorrow at the loss which | the Empire has suffered by the death of s Queen Victoria. -Mr Powell, contractor to., £ south of Eyre races contracts, intends**, cd £, the Board applying for an addition to the, . l contract sum due. The Board finally decid* *| cd to grant him £20 for extra works on | account of the low price at which he had | taken the contracts. Mr Dohraian inter- | viewed the Board to explain his action in | cutting off the water from his race into a | creek for three days. The Chairman d_- | tided to visit the "ground. A letter fmm | Mr John Fisher for leave to t___ wter g from Mr Gardiner's gravel pit to a | was referred to the member lor the dibiucC % and the engineer. Mr R. 0. Dixon's letter | stating that he had purchased all the races *f on his brother's property, and pressing for | payment to himself of their coat, was ton- 3 sidered. The opinion cf the Board's .oh- \ citor was read that ha could not advise tha A Board to b-como parties to such a proceed- ;] ing, which would be vitiated so long as 4 -_j Mr M. J. Dixon remained on the Board, '* while the money was voted to his brother as . his assignee. It was pointed out that though *-] Mr R. 0. Dixon denied that the races made '• by the Board were any benefit to his pro* _* p'erty, ho had seen fit to extend two of them -" several miles. The Chairman reported that •=_ Mr G. Searles had offered to sell the Board 1 an acre of land at the Cust fe-r £22 10s. |. With regard to the Ashley Gorge main race, fi) a letter was received from Mr O'Halloran jf approving the surveyed line, oil-ring to give gj a free passage for" the race through hia j, land, trusting others would do the same, % and advocating proceeding with the work at U once. Mr Lance proposed that the work 5, should be gone on with, on account cf the ty great benefit it-would bs to t-lo whole dis- £ trict as an extra source of supply of water g, in time of drought. The Chairman was in _; iavonr of the work being done. Mr Dixon ' objected unless tho whole co_t could ba * obtained from a ("cvernment grant. Corfederation was deferred till next meetin;* j The engineer reported that in order to siipp.v the Brown's Rock district eflicientlv, : independently of the Cust riv-ar source. tb._ lover main race would require ewbaJl-ipg on Wolff's road, and an 18-ineli pipe ÜBOet j race there would require lowering 9 incbt-s. «**- The Board authorised these works to be pat f in hand when the water was shut off fc. <*--» clearing races. 'J-