DRAINAGE SCHEME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19812, 2 December 1919, Page 8

DRAINAGE SCHEME.

EXTENSIVE WORKS PLANNED. Extensive works, involving an (.j, immature of close on .CToO.OOO? are contemplated by the Christchurch Drainage Board. Outlining the scheme to-day. Air E Cut fibert, score, ary and engineer to the board, said that m January rat©. P'O* is d.icctlj outside (he present sewage area would be asked to vote on a proposal to extend the stratum to their su.mrbs U that proposal were carned the next step would he to take a poll lor the purpose or securing authority to raise the necessarv loan. The new scheme, said Mr Cutlibort, would cost, approximately, three-quarters of a million sterling, and would take boomvrn T?. :;nd th ' W - vcars t0 oomplete, as vit n net: ™ y SU PP ! .V « f hr bo u r was available Iho new work would be accompanied by many more difficult problems than tho original undertaking. the principal reasons being that ti'cawf rK '' tS !°i, b0 T vccl further Pom tho cuil-,11 and the mains would seve-it lt be longer ’ In addition, ha,- 1 hj" 1 u iumrig stations would nai a to bo erected,