CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT DRAINAGE BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5577, 7 January 1879, Page 6

CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT DRAINAGE BOARD.

A epsoial meeting of the Dralnage Btord was held at 10.80 yesterday morning} priwbqt— Messrs Tancred (Chairman), Hannan, Duncan, andßois. • 1 The Chairman said he had called thS special meeting for the purpose, of considering tenders sent in for the storm-water drain In Antijua street. Why he had thought it desirabli to call the meeting 1 at such a short date before the holding of the' annual meeting was, that Mr Bell considered that a week or tety days’ delay would be very inconvenient just now, and a greater. delay might have taken mace after the expiration of the present Board before, the work was commenced than was thought by the Engineer to be desirable. Perhaps it would boos well to go info committee to consider the tenders which come in : '' !

Mr Dunoon said before the Board went into Committee he would like to refer shortly to an article that hod appeared in one of the papers, ip which it was stated that the Board; in carrying out the present dfaipage in the Berry read were departing from Mr Clark’s scheme. Thia.was altogether an error. Ini page 18 sf Mr Clark’s report the following’ paragraph relating to Ferry road . would be j found; —“Ferry road would receive,a 12 inch pipe from Matheson’s road to Bell’s ‘ creek tp carry both the; rain; water■ 'and the house drainage froxi dwellings along the road; i and j the mouth p| Bell’s creek k® deepened! to give, pipe the requisite faU.” Now, • What the Board Were doing was'this :* In-■ stead of deepening out the-.bed-of Jackson’s creak to carry the storm water from the district, it would be, carried, dowu’the Fhrry road sewer, and the rain whiter and houw drainage from the houses along the Ferry toad Would be tarried down thls sewer insteaddf by the 12in ppe as recoihraended' by •Mr Clark. The ; Boaoq had simply, made?) these, iconiiections for! the purpose ,of top subsoil wifcer and liohse sewage in A mapher which wodd be beneficial, to tM-’inwlffißis-trict, and.ndthiqg [ whatever Way of sewage wodd go into the Ferry road drain, other tlianthat which would have gone into the 12iu.pjje, os recommended by,Mr Clark’s plhri. The discharge' would bo Into Bell’s creek as; lad down by that ’genfclematq'ahd there wood be this additional improvement that greater Bushing power would be pbtained by the sewir than could have been, from the ppe. ■ ■ The Boird then went into ’Ooihmiftoe 1 to oonsider tvo tenders received for the Antigua street stern water drain. ; : • r 1 ■ .Bothtodera highland, on resuiniig, the Chairman reported ,that Committeehaving considered the tenders, reoeivedTiiglßr than it was desirous' to acctpt, had. agreei to: the following resolution “ That the toners for. the > Antigoa storm' drain" bein; too high, they be declined,!and that fresh tenders be called, to be sent "in before Eritkj, Jan,l7.” ■ ( . The resbutidh was approved. Mr Harnan apologised for the absence of Mr Hall; who was engaged on his Road Board duties, and Mr Ddncan: for Mr Hobbs ; who wan engage! at the JSupremo Court. : - On the ipplication of the Engineer, the. Chairman was authorised to purchase a 4-horse powjr engine to drive another centrifugal pump at the Salisbury street works' in the event of the Engineer not being able to hire a suitalte one. h .L This conchded the business.