PLUMBERS’ TROUBLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 96, 13 June 1911, Page 4

PLUMBERS’ TROUBLES.

i in? following letter from Mess -s Melvl.iJau and Fredrie was read at the meeting of the Borough Council last night:- , We have to complain of having had to wait a considerable time for two water connection to lie made to the mains, and when they were done we wore surprised to find that another firm was employed by you to do the work. When it. was found that your own staff could not do the work, one would think the fair thing to do would be to have asked uk to make the connections, and so let ns get on with our work and not inconvenience our clients. Mr Twiss, in this particular case, was very much inconvenienced. On asking Mr Sullivan for an explanation, he said that ho was penalising ns for having not turned the main valve full on after doing a previous job. This, he said, had accounted for the io >• pressure available at the Dairy Factory''fire. We might say that our man, Mr Walsh, whom Mr Sullivan accuse? of not opening the valves pimpeily, absolutely denies the charge, end lie has had considerable experience in this kind of work with us and also the Fire Brigade, of which be is an old member. Now, wo wish to know if Mr Sullivan in making this accusation against us and penalising us on that account, is doing so with the Council’s approval. The following report on the matter by the Overseer was read: — Mr McMi.lan asked me why his firm va? i employed to put in two water >ei - vice; "tioni t'p nam «»■ Die street boundary. I pointed out to him that I would not trust the opening and closing of the valves to boys, as I found one of the valves which controls the main in Cordelia Street was not. properly open at the time of the dairy factory fire, i did not say this accounted for the low pressure at the time of the fire. What I said was that it contributed to it, as the water had to travel from Sylvia Sreot along Rosalind Street to Cordelia. Street, and the loss by friction was greater owing to the longer distance the water had to travel in a three-inch pipe. They also state that. I accuse Mr Walsh of not opening'the valve properly, and, in reply, I have to state that I did not do so. The value of the work and material in connection with the two water services complained of by the firm is £1 17s 9(1, and seeing that 1 have employed the firm to lay about, twenty chains of mains, plus connections thereto, 1 fail to see their cause for complaint. In conclusion, F beg to state that Messrs McM ban an • Fredrie are not license 1 under Ire Bin nngli by-la .vs. The ’Town Clerk stared that, the firm bad overlo A.->d the }a; u .nt of their license for.. It was decided that the Overseer’;? explanation he accepted and that a copy be sent to the firm. •■ 1 i