DRAINAGE WORKS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18725, 23 June 1926, Page 13

DRAINAGE WORKS.

* ' v ■ w. 'THE WATER DIFFICULTY. : .jjj *|||| Garden road, Fendaiton, presents-an Jljltjpearaice at present about as .untrue nanje as could be imagined. The ; ti of trenclies'f or sewer-layin'g x i of any- F but Garden road probably has : . , %'fflffered more than most' streets. ■ . ih.Tho condition of . things has bcen renirrflired somewhat worse by the. fact that p tUfl. contractor for the drainage-works, P. W. Brightliiig, has struck water in quantity, and he no fewer than i# (fe?en pumps going night and day , ■4» "(wenty-four hours to the day, and if . I were twenty-five they would be wfegoing twenty-five," he declared yesterglance into the open trench goes to ■* li t «9nferm the contractor's statement. Ihe J; . L # trench is being dug to a depth of nine g and for some distance before that o 1 depth js reached the ground dealt witn t ii k shingle. By the time a depth of fii wen feet, or seven feet and a naif, is fl >-j|l «fftched tho men are working m water c •j/almoat up to their knees, and, of course, have to wear gum boots. im c %, pumps keep discharging a steady s \ Kato that a . ;Mfcr in the trench being held, at a e SWI that permits of work being done, j 1 just beyond Wairarapa terrace two jumps, each discharging 250 gallons pe j 'jfoiote, are operating; there _is a ?°£ ' the bridge, and below the brid S e , 1 Mete are four, the capacity of the larg- , ;V«»iT>eing 700 or 750 gallons per minute. , /-The nature of the country has ne «!®. . i »v"tated every inch of the trench g 1 f} jtiwhered. „ , _ ' to 1 4 A rather remarkable find was s £ ill one portion of yesterday, i. favthe shape of a solitary bon > a f rMed like the arm bone of a hu ?f t i being. It was found feet , £ telow the surface, a?d no other bones T Were seen in the vicinity.