DRAINAGE MATTERS

Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 14

DRAINAGE MATTERS

AGREEMENT WITH TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT The monthly meeting of the Drainage Board, held last night, was attended by Messrs W. B. Taverner (in the chair), Larnach, Hancock, Shncklbck, Wilson, Begg, and Edgar. The most important item in the report of the Works Committee, adopted on the motion of Air Wilson, was: “An application from the telegraph engineer for permission to drain a numbfer of telephone conduit pits into the city drainage system has been granted, subject to conditions which are set forth in minute dated the JCth inst,, by the drainage engineer, and laid on the table. The Telegraph Department is to pay to the board the sum of Cl per annum for each pit so connected, and is to indemnify the board against any claims for damages that may bo caused by sewage, whether from defects in the sewers or from any other cause whatsoever.” The board confirmed a special order authorising the raising of a loan of £50,000 to repay a loan of a like sum maturing on July 1, 1926. The lenders of Messrs John M Gregor and Co. were accepted for the supplv of 100 manhole covers, sixty No. 1 mud tank gratings, and sixty No. 2 mud tank gratings.