DRAINAGE BOARD.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11103, 23 October 1901, Page 4

DRAINAGE BOARD.

A prolonged meeting of the- Christeliurch Drainage Board took place yesterday afternoon, Mr R. M. Taylor being in the cftajr. There were also present Messrs W. E. Samuels, George Mclntyxe, C. P&lairet, Charles Burgess, J. Down, and Dr. Moorhouse. The secretary and treasurer's report was adopted, and showed rates received J318&0 4s Id, receipts from cattle £38 15s 6d, rent £6, pumping ram waste £4 18s 10d, sundriei £1 lbs 6d, total receipts £1911 14a lid. Expenditure £572 13s Sid, amount of 1899 rate outstanding £35 11s, ■ outstanding for 190G £279 15s 4d, amount of 1901 rat© collected . £3986 6s 2d, debit balance £2768 12s 10d. Xt was stated that nine head of ,-cattte, costing £30 3s, lxad been bought, and sis head add for £38 15s 6d. The Avon Road Board acknowledg?* l re " cedpt of a letter alleging insufficiency in the Size of the oulvert under the CaaalJEUsserve at the No. 2 drain, and stated that the Board Jbad decided to inquire into the matter. Thf letter, was received. .■ Unpleasant smells carried by the souwesters from tie uncovered portions' of tht . Lincoln Road drain were complained olbj the .secretary of the Cluistehurchi Hospital Board, who requested that the drain should be completed so as to abate the nuisance. Dr. Synies also wrote on the matter* In this connection the', Drainage Board's seoreta-ry stated that the City Council had asked Dr. 'Mason to make investigation of the. alleged nuisance, and it was decided to do nothing ■ until bis report should be made known. The Avon Boad Board made application for a copy of the Drainage Board's resolutions of February 12th, 1899, defining the districts of rural Avon and Riocarton raspfio tively. The Board also 'asked -whether th« portion of the Avon Road Board district?, taken over by the' Ricearton Board some twenty years ago, was im the rural district of Avon or Riccarton for purposes of representation, on the Drainage Board. It \ns decided to grant th& application, and to- statethat thift portion referred to was in Avon. The same. Board also wrote that on the 31st March last they had paid the Drainage • Board £50 more than, they had reoemd on their account. Since that date they had received £127 10s' Id, and had paid the Drainage Board £100, leaving, a balance due to the latter of £27 10s Id, for whitih a . cheque was enclosed. It wad stated that ,the number of small .farmers who depended principally <on onions, and potatoes for a living was the-cause of the delay in.tha pay: xnent of rates in the Avon district. Only onca in. five- or six years were ihey. able to pay their rates punctually. f lf the method.of rate collecting should, still fail to give . satisfaction, the Board would gladly assist in trying to obtain an amendment in the law for its discontinuance. The letter was received. " ' . . . - '■ The Riccarton Road Board "wrote that the drainage rates collected in that district had been:--Sewage £53 Is 6d, and rural £670 10a 9d. A second letter asked for-' the, t» , : mittance to .the Papanui Domain Board of" the rates collected on the Papanui Recreation ; Reserve. The Drainage Board agreed to the request. * - • ' The engineer's report, which was adopted, stated that the work of clearing the rivtr Heatheote below .Radley bridge had beeaacompleted at a cost of £15. As thire was little chance of Hooding during the summer months, he- recommended the deferment, till next year of the laying of the overflow pipe from, the head of the Lincoln road storm-water sewer to the Park drain, authorised at the August meeting. The cost could then be included in the estimates. After having investigated Mr Spensley's complaint of an alleged nuisance in Bell's Creek, between the mouth-of'the Feny road sewer and the river Heafchoote, the engineer recommended that the drain should not be covered. Its course should ba straightened, however, and the present timber work between the river and Mr Spensley's approach be raised by nine inehts, aad the remainder of the cut close by timbered on th* aides f> a corresponding height. All the land adjoining the drain would then be filled up to , the same level, and no stagnant water would 1 remain when the tide fell. The health officer also thought that these measures would be sufficient. . A resolution wag passed, "That, in accordance with the. Ohristchuroh Drainage Act,, 1875, Amendment Act, 1900, £25,0% be borrowed for the purpose sped- - fied in that Act, and that tenders bs invited for the issue of 100 debentures for £100 each, being the first issue of the said loan." Accounts were passed for payment to the value of £572 13s 2d.