UNDERGROUND PLANT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 12

UNDERGROUND PLANT

CO-ORDINATION SUGGESTED

(ISy Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Post and Telegraph Department is circularising local bodies with a suggestion that a public Utilities committee be set up to co-ordinate activities involving street' openings for any underground plant, such as water, gas, and sewer mains, electric cables, telephone ducts, and also the erection of power poles. c

An arrangement such as, that sug gested by the Post and Telegraph De partment has held in Welington for some years past.. The City Engineer's Department is in touch with the various Government Departments, the Gas Company, and Harbour Board, and at- intervals schemes of proposed work are submitted and arrangements made whereby two or more necessary serviejngs are made at the same time. Inevitably there are occasions when the scheme of co-ordination misses a step, fjut complaints that roads and footpaths are no sooner down than they are taken up again are much less frequent than they wero a few years ago. It is ii. accordance with this idea of coordination that tho City Council and Bailways Department are at present working together for the provision ot Ktormwater drainage from Lambton Quay and Ihe area of Ihe new railway station. ■ .