DRAINAGE WORKS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18149, 12 August 1924, Page 9

DRAINAGE WORKS.

. ' . 0 I 'MiU progress of contracts. WORK AT THB SSWAfiB FARM. Steady progress is wported In connexion with the aejrer-laying contracts already let for the Bion of the Jor the No. 11 rising mam (Woolston) about 1800 ft. of «4w eart if°a have been laid in the work has been completed pribctic« lv to the boundary of Lin wood "***• "I'hs contractors for the two oomP*f»tively small reticulation oontr«rt|r--Bt. Andrews square, and coroeejey street, Woolaton, and makine good headway. Tenders wtu be called shortly forth® No. IllMWj from Randolph streH jm road and Ensor'a road to theWMW-«o» inir where it connects with the No. 20 rising main, tenders for whiA jnU be, nrobablv. called for eamultaneouely. Tenders for the No. 8 ««wer Richmond), which conned* with tbe No. 10 sewer, will be also called for shortly. At Woodham road th® workmen, under the superyi»on of the Board's Engineer (Mr X " e making progress with the timbering; of tie trench. , Hie new paddocks at the Boards sewage farm, covering an weft of s®i acres, are nearing completion. l»e last depression is being filled in at present and there are a few stop banks to be constructed before the prater can be turned on. These paddocSs are required under the existing system. Xn® question of further th® irrigation area at the farm by preparing about 66 acres, and of catting a new main effluent drain—works that quired UQfo i<h<* ifctoio for sion of the ncwagp system—ipill w? probably, considered at the next meeting of the Bo#d • • .< At to-night's general meeting of the workers interested is the question of co-operative parties taking up drainape works' (snxtractt there will he submitted additional information as to the deductions tliafc may be thade by the : Drainage Bo|W iir resect of payments due to the confracttorsi Hiese .include: 25 pet cent* held By tß© Board, tinaer the general conditions, till the soeeified period after the conclusion of the contract; and the following under the conditions added to the general conditions in the interests of co-operative parties: 10 per cent, in respect of tools and plant; 10 per cent, m the event of th© contractors being, unable Jo lodge the deposit provided for under the general conditions; , and a further dfr duction (contingent upon the cost ra ta® . material required by to® contractors) i to pay for material.