DRAINAGE BOARD.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11151, 18 December 1901, Page 8

DRAINAGE BOARD.

The Drainage Board met? yesterday. Pre-- - sent—Messrs John.Deans (chairman), B. M. . Taylor, W. E. Samuels, R, Pitcaithly, Q. - Mclntyre, C. Burgess, Dr. Moorhouse, 0. - ; Palaixet, and J- "Duwri./ ,- ? The secretary and report,". - which was adapted, showed the amount re-" - • ceived on rate account for the past month - to ba—Rates £2090 12s sd»- receipts from . , other som-ces £127 8* ,6d, amount receeived on loan account'£4lo 0s Sdi; "total receipts, -• £2628 Is 4dv Amount x>f expenditure--OB rate account £6491' 6s>, «amount' on loaa account £33 16s 6df; expenditure.'.';, £6525 Is 6d; amount of. 1899 rate otft- - standing £21 lis 7d, of 1900r rate £211 ll* i B<J, amount, of '1901 irate , collected 1 £7366'- *,? 17s 6d, credit balance £327 3s ' '.4A petition near;'/; the Canal Reserve asking; the Board to\v< deepen the drain -tier©*.' lor about fifteen ■ ,-U '■. chains northward from Briggs's road.- The ' f matter was left .to the engineer to report;*, s upon next meeting., ■' •• - - -X'The Chairman, reported on the visit road* •; recently to the -drainage f and the re-. ' •''-• commendations (already reported), with re- ..',% gard to obviating certain nuisances. Tbi<flj recoaiimendataons were approved. The en* .. gineer reported'that a bridge or culvert,' 6ft 'by 4ft, would be required at No. 2 /'* drain, Canal Reserve,' in times of flood.. Repairs costing about) £75 Vere necessary ■■ to an old wooden." outfall "■ drain, and it \ - would be troll to put the work in hand at ,' onoe. Several side channel connections with the drain had been-made-by, "the Linwood and Woolston Borough without : permission .of the Board,-and , -it was stated ,; thiifc in consequence of the imperfect man- - * ncr in which the -work-had been done the v sides of the drain were iii many places be~ J *■ ; ang washed taway... The contracts w«?e . , nearly completedi for- putting down the sewer in Dundas sta-eet. Of these he sob*

mitted the first for-approval, and the next "■ sh<Mdl embrace the Tuam street ~ main sewer, -west of Colombo street, and, some [ of ;the eidjoining. eireeta in the south-west district. Horse traffic would, need to 1»> ;., entirely suspended in Tuam street, between' Colombo and Durham streets, daring th« progress of the work, .and much care would -, hay« to be exercised in connection with the ,; : tram traffic. The report was adopted. It was decided to remind the Wooleton " Borough CoujQcil that unless it should pay the outstanding rates for 1899 and , 190(1 before the 31st December, as originally re* ■. solved, the Board would take action against ■'-" it. - It was decided to clear of ,gorse and weed - a further quarter of a chain, of the Sewage - Reserve. A quarter of an acre wae cleared . last year, the object being precaution against fire. , , . . ■' -. It was resolved , to grant the engineer, \ Mr E. Culhbertj a percentage of on the -. amount to be spent on laying down the , new sewers, which it was stated woulJ " entail for him a. .great deal of extra work, ; and to increase the salary of the clerk, ■ Air W. H. Kiver, from £175 to £200. The resolution of a former meeting, granting, the engineer an increase of £100, was rescinded.