THE REFUSE DESTRUCTOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13282, 14 September 1906, Page 6

THE REFUSE DESTRUCTOR.

TO BE TAKEN OVER BY COUNCIL.

"A CLEAN CITY."

At the meeting of the Auckland City Council last evening, the Finance Committee advised that the city engineer had reported on the tests of the burning in the refuse destrtlctoi, and recommended the Council to take over the destructor from the contractors, and to pay them the balance, £11,533 As 4d, owing mi the contract, less the sum of £33 4s 4d, deducted in lien of certain repairs not having been done.

The Mayor (Mr. A. M. Myers) said the city engineer had made very careful tests since the 29th of last month, and on the whole he was satisfied that the heat generated was sufficient at any rate to justify him, under certain circumstances, in giving a certificate to the contractors.

Mr. J. Farrell: I suppose the tests came up to the standard 350 degrees in the generator? The Mayor: No, they did not. Mr. Farrell: 1 understood that was what the engineer had deferred the matter for. If it came up to the 350 degrees, I understand it would consume the material more readily. The town clerk (Mr. Wilson): It came to within measurable distance. The Mayor: The test justified the city engineer, on certain conditions, in making a recommendation in the manner that he did to the committee. I believe on the whole that certain alterations have been made that are an improvement, and tintests have been conducted under different circumstances to a previous occasion, and the engineer himself took the responsibility of giving a certifies 1 move that the account be passed for payment, and the recommendation adopted. "We shall have no further occasion I hope, continued the Mayor, "'for having to trouble the Hnurnfci Gulf with our ru7>oish, so thai notices of motion need not he made in the House- of Representatives in Wellington. We consider we are a clean city, and T should be sorry if thev got an impression in the- Umpire'Citv that the Queen City of New' Zealand is not a clean oily on the whole. We have a destructor cabbie of doing the work in a satisfactory way." The motion was adopted.'