DRAINAGE BOARD

Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 10

DRAINAGE BOARD

WORKS COMMITTEE’S PROPOSALS. The Worlds f'nimuitUe at next Wednesday night’s meeting of the Drainage Boaord will report as follows - Authority lias been granted to arrange for the service of notices in connect ion with the construction of drains-in-com-inim to serve a tcrraco of houses in Princes. Lees, and Jones streets, and also certain properties in Gillies street. The contractor for the driving of the drainage tunnel at Tainui has completed bis work, and the job lias been, taken over by tho board, and the filial payments made. Tho committee Ims further arranged for tho laying of tho pipe within the tunnel to be proceeded with, and the work is now in hand, and will be pushed on with all possible expedition. The laying of tho pipe will bo conducted under the supervision of the board’s officials. In order to keep tho men in employment, it was necessary, prior to tho Christmas holidays, to authorise tho engineer to proceed with either one or the other of tho undermentioned works, neither of which was provided for in the present year's schedule. As tho expenditure. however, will be part of next year’s capital outlay, the committee considered that in the circumstances the engineer .should be. permitted to put the work in hand if the circumstances warranted it. Tho works were as tollow :—(a) Littlcbonrne road—Completion of stormwater sewer with necessary manholes and mud tanks, at an estimated rnfit- of £1.083. (b) Bay View road—Completion of stormwater culvert on south side from Kirkcaldy street, at an estimated cost of £2.344. Authority has been granted the engineer to complete the small Cargill road conduit from 1 iraemar street to Anderson Bay road, in order to enable the pipe to clear itself, which it does not do at present, ns there is a rise of about 15in that stops tho flow to that extent. The estimated cost is £522, and will be a charge on next year's capital outlay. A further communication has been received from the Otago Harbor Board under date December 12,_ in which it intimated that the hoard is immediately taking steps to secure the opinion of a judge of tho Supreme Court on tho question of sewers on reclaimed land. .As already reported to council, the committee is of the opinion that tho matter is still one for compromise between tho parties, and that there is no need to take such a course, nor will any useful purpose be served by doing so. Authority has been granted the engineer to put in hand an extension of the sewer in Cliffs read, at an estimated cost of £390.

A resolution -will no moved that the board raise a special loan of £16,000, to be known as the “ Flood Damage Loan. 1924,” for tho purpoco of providing for the exceptional expenditure beyond tho provisions made in tho yearly estimates for tho current year as tho result of damage done by the floods of April mu! May/1923.