LAYING THE SEWERS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 16

LAYING THE SEWERS.

CHRISTCHURCH CONDITIONS "WORST PLACE POSSIBLE.'* Concluding his statement, to the Drainage Board last evening with reference to the expenditure of the £700,000 loan, the chairman (Mr H. J. Otley) said that Christchurch was the worst place possible in which to lay sowers, because of the proximity of water to the surface. Everything possible had been done by the engineer to avoid causing people inconvenience, but this could not be avoided entirely. He asked residents to be as patient as possible, and to remember that, although many parts of the City might bo cut up simultaneously, the sewers would be completed all the earlier. The scheme was costing to date more than the estimate, but it would be completed earlier than was anticipated, and the whole of the contracts would' be done at a lower cost than in the past. The contractors were getting on well with the sewers. Christchurch was possibly the worst place in the world to estimate, and "try" holes gave no accurato indication of what would be struck in a trench. Mr Otley thanked the members for their co-operation during the period of his chairmanship and while he had been a member.