STORM-WATER DRAINAGE
QUEEN STREET SCHEME COMMENCEMENT OF WORK A start was made yesterday upon the Queen Street watershed storm-water drainage improvement scheme, which forms tliG first instalment of the constructive relief works recently authorised by the City Council. The scheme involves a supplementary sewer tapping the present sewer system in the vicinity of Victoria Street and discharging into the harbour between Prince's and Queen's Wharves. A small gang of men was engaged yesterday in erecting sheds for tools and plant upon the old dock site, near the proposed outfall. About .'lO men will be employed by the end of the week in excavating an open cut in Quay Street West, which is the first part of the work. The number will bo increased later as required. Relief workers employed on the scheme will be allowed one day's work a week at the council's expense in addition to their ordinary allocation and the 10 per cent cut introduced some time ago will be made up by the council.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21471, 20 April 1933, Page 11
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