TAUMATA HILL RESERVOIR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18180, 30 August 1933, Page 4

TAUMATA HILL RESERVOIR

UHIMPLOYMENT SUBSIDY 'APPLICATION TO BOARD : ■ • - The question- of -applying -to the Uuemploymoiit Board for subsidy on the cost of constructing the "Taumata dill service reservoir has been con«ktawd by. tho. works' committee of the Borough Council; and in a report to hwi pvooing/8 meeting of the council the committee stated' that it had been decided to 'instruct the town clerk to Bwhe r the necessary application to the board. The clerk had been asked to iaq»iro, also, whether the same. coneeMion could be' granted .to a conductor in the "event of the work beta* carried ,out by contract. Tto report stated further that the ]tfyfor tod' been authorised to send a • cotoriog*letter with the town clerk’s application -pointing out 1 the necessity lactoc' work .being continuous, and Mh&g alto that consideration should bo gives to the suggestion that two gf turee 'claw B men- w’ho -es- ■ '

perienced in concrete work should bo employed. .Regarding the mutter of undertaking the work by day labor or contract, the report stated that it had been agreed that this question could not be finalised until a reply to _ the application for subsidy was received from the Unemployment Board. In /he meantime, tlio engineer was authorised to cal! for tenders 1 for steel, cement, and lit t ings.