NEARLY £10,000.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 30 September 1924, Page 1

NEARLY £IO,OOO.

SEWERAGE EXTENSION CONTRACT. TIMARU TENDER ACCEPTED The biggest contract so far let by the Christchurch Drainage Board in connection with its sewerage extension scheme has just been signed up Mr Thomas Pheloung, of 19, Royal Street, Timaru. The contract is for "laying No. 11 sewer and trenching and refilling No. 20 rising main. The price is £9882, or nearly double the previous highest price for a tende,r accepted for a sewerage extension contract. No. 20 rising main will commence at No. 20 pumping station in Church Street, Opawa, near the Heathcote River. It will then proceed along Fifield Terrace and Ensor’s Road to the Lyttelton railway line, where it will join No. 11 sewer. No. 11 sewer will proceed along Ensor’s Road, across Ferry Road, and along Aldwin’s Road, Bass Street and Randolph Street to No. 11 pumping station, from w'hich the pipes have already been laid for some distance by another contractor. The length of the rising main will lie 31 chains and of the No. 11 sewer, 69 chains.

The co-operative working party of five men. under the leadership of Mr James M’Taggart, who recently secured the contract for trenching and refilling No. 10 rising main from Woodham Road to the sewage farm, a distance of 67 chains, started work yesterday. The party consists of five men. all of whom have signed the contract as principals. Their work consists of cutting the trench and refilling only. The Hume Pipe Company will lay the pipes. Progress with the laying of No. 10

sewer in Woodham Road, where exceptional difficulties were encountered as a result of quicksand, is proceeding slowly. Three shifts daily 7 are being worked and no improvement has so far been shown in the ground opened up.