WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1931, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.) WESTPORT, May 3. Buller herd testing results for last month wore: Herds tested 45, cows tested 906; monthly averages —milk 477, test 5.2 per cent., fat 25.15 lbs; highest herd average —20 cows, 842 lbs milk, 4.7 per cent, test, 39.8 lbs fat; highest cow—66 lbs fat. Nurse J. Taylor, on her annual holidays. left fop Wellington by the s.s. Komata. / The following were outward passengers by the s.s. Komata: Miss Dunn, Mesdanies Jenkins, Walshe, Binny, Newman, Halliday and infant, S. Matrix, Messrs Broad, Stafford, C. E. Pedley, Hinton, Hutcheson, Marris. Mr A. G. Sime has left for Dunedin Ou receipt of word of his mother’s serious illness. Mr and Mrs Sydney Marris, Seddonville, left by the Komata for Wellington, whence Mrs Marris leaves on an •extended holiday to the Old Country. Building permits to the. value of £14.136 were issued during the past year, and to 1 this must be added the cost of the new Post Office, viz., 1 £18,133, for which a permit to build uas not obtained making a total of £27,269 for the past twelve months. Mr 11. Campbell, Fields Inspector, has arrived from Reeftop on business in collection with the Nelson Land Board.

To give the school pupils an interest in civics, the Director of the Technical High School is distributing voting papers to* the children on Wednesday, so that they may record votes for the various municipal elections. The votes will not be counted until Thursday. Captain Tulloch was the guest of Buber Caledonian Society at a social gathering last evening in the Elite Tea Rooms. The- sewerage system has functioned satisfactorily for the past year with the exception of a section in Roebuck Street from Palmerston Street from Palmerston Street to the river and a. j section in the Esplanade (says the | Borough Egineer in his report). Both these sections were damaged by the | earthquake, though the faults were . long in causing trouble and in both cases the Public Works Engineer ap- ' proved of the work of repairing being > subsidised as earthquake damage. Both works were of an extensive nature, especially that in Roebuck Street where the sewer is deep and the soil sandy. The fifteenth stormwater drain in Brougham Street between Peel and Roniilly Streets, was smashed and the broken earthenware pipes wbre replaced with Hume concrete pipes. This work also was subsidised as earthquake damage. The open stormwater drain in Disraeli Street filled owing to the timber holding the sides collapsing and had to be temporarily repaired. The blocking of this drain and also the Roebuck Street sewer which carries stormwater caused Mr Bird’s and other properties in the vicinity to be flooded. The 15 inch earthenware pipes at the waterworks which have been replaced with concrete pipes are being brought down and will be used to pipe the present open drain i n Disraeli Street, an urgent work which must be done during the coming year. New connections to the sewerage system were 19 in number and six new storm water connections were put in. Fourteen blocked or broken combined sewer connections were repaired and several storm water connections. Four concrete traps for storm water channels were , put in and sewer manhole and lamp

! hole tops raised to proper level. I The Borough Engineer in his annual * report refers to the water service ' follows: The 21 inch Hume concrete pipes were laid from the old sump to I the well-house during the previous year, but owing to bad weather and I scarcity of labour the loan work was not continued. During the past twelve i months the anchor blocks at the bends we.-e put in and also the bifurcating . piece at the well-house. A screen 1 tower was designed and tenders called fo r erection and the tower .erected at the beginning of this year. As labour was plentiful the remaining works were pushed on. The I<B inch main ’ from the screen tower to Schadick ' dam was completed. The 14 inch and 8 inch mains wore disconnected from the well-house and connected to the bifurcating piece and pressure of water supply in town increased. The ! existing 22 inch concrete locally made ' pipe between the screen tower and 1 rump was strengthened with rei’ni forcing steel, and the broken sections fiom the tower to the’ dam. removed. ! This broken portion is being replaced 1 with Hume pipes and soon both dams ' will be connected direct to town. The j 14 inch mains are in good order and I the former has been tarred where exposed to the air. The 8 inch main from tho foot of the hill to Giles Creek is on the ground where it was thrown by the earthquake and will eventually have to be lifted on to the trestles alongside the 14 inch main. As there 1 is a doubt as to whether the Govern- ! meat will subsidise the work of lifting this pipe, the work has been held

over for the time being. The town reticulation is in good order except that the 3 inch and 4 inch mains are badly encrushed and will have to be cleaned. I The larger pipes when tapped for ser-1 vice connections show no signs of sim-1 ilar internal incrustation.