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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18187, 21 June 1927, Page 4

A beginning was made by the City Council yesterday with the work of laying the 12-inch mains in Tennyson Street for the extension of the highpressure water supply system to the outer areas of the city. The pipes for the job arrived on Friday and ari angements were made immediately for putting the work in hand. Eighteen men started on the work yesterday morning, and if the supply of pipes is maintained the number will be increased later on. The Tekoa, which i; bringing a supply of pipes from England for the reticulation of the Spreydon district, is now at Auckland, and the Matatua. v/ith a further supply on board, is due to arrive about the middle of nextmonth. Advice has been received bv •the City Engineer (M; A. R. Galbraith) that the specials for the Spreydon reticulation, which have been made by a Dunedin firm, are now ready. A representative of A the City Council will proceed to Dunedin , to-day to inspect and test them. Inspector James is still at Wanganui watching the manufacure of the pipes and testing them before they are shipped to Lyttelton. “ The only possible hitch I can see that is likely to cause any delay now, ’ said the City Engineer yesterday, “would be stress of weather. If all thi materials come to hand as expected it is quite possible that within a month we will be able to absorb a hundred