THE NEW AUCKLAND DRAINAGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 555, 9 July 1909, Page 2

THE NEW AUCKLAND DRAINAGE.

9 OPERATIONS, AROUT TO. BEGIN. ' (By Telegraph -Press Aesociation.) , Auckland, July 8. ' The first instalment of £100,000 of the Auckland City and Submlnn Diaiin-;o Board's loan lias lx>on icoci\cd, and lodged in tho bank to tho credit of the board's account. The enyncor (Mi. \V. E. Bueh) is busy propanne; tho plans lcquisito fqi the first portions of tho «ork 'i be under'akra, v and cxpcctE {o plaoo tlioio for tuo scotione of tho work beforo, tho board at ite next on Juh -rf. It has alread) been v'ocu'od tKit riv s sh.>ll commciico with the Arc'i ;;iilly, and <ho wcond contiac,t lot mil lie foi rhe outfall tlicrcfiom It Mb innliciiMtcd lint, within six month;,, both contra*ts u<ll bo ia piogiess, and that at the end of twelve months the diainage scliomo will bo in full suing, if matters go smoothly. Anothoi iwition of the loan , will probably bo loquued m eighteen monfclis' time. The first two contracts should bo'let in.i compaiatively slioit time, and, as thoy will in« \olvo the employment oi a coiiEidcrJiblo nutnbor of nipn, \utli more to follow as tho vaiious woiks piofjrejfs, Uie undortaluug has an important bearing towards tho present unemployed problem. On tho Arcli Hijl gull) and onlfall ecctions alono, an oipehdituro of between £30,000 and £40,000 IB ontailed.