NOT RECOMMENDED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1203, 11 August 1911, Page 5

NOT RECOMMENDED.

TEKRACE PASSENGER LIFT. Reporting . upon the proposal for the construction of a' subway and electric elevator at Church Street to connect between Boulcott Street and Wellington Terrace, tho city engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) submitted a plan showing the position in- Church Street with the entrance to the subway, also a section of tho subway and an elevator shaft. Tho entrance to tho subway, he said, would require (o have a concrete retaining wall constructed. There were no engineering difficulties in connection with the proposal, but the advisability or otherwise of carrying out such a scheme depend entirely upon tho financial results obtainable. Ho differed from tho estimates submitted by tho deputation, both as regards capital costs and receipts and expenditure, and submitted for consideration tho following estimates regarding both:— Excavating: drive and shaft, 2030 cubic yards (10s.), .€1015; brickwork, 225,000 (uE9.), .£2025; concrete floors, 250 yards (35.), .£100; drains, 250 ft. (25.), .£25; retaining wall, 71 cubic yards Ul 155.), 4125; plaster, 1731 yarns (2s. 3d.), .£195; building, 21 x 12 x 15, 4320 ft. (9d.'), ,£162; nsphalto road, 100 yards (25.), £10; altering steps at top, .£ls; electric light, .£25; iron grilles (i at ,£10), .£-(0; girders, 1 ton, Xl 5; lifts, 2 at MiO, .£1280; feeder cable, .£165; 10 per cent, engineering, ,£519; total, .£5710. Estimate of receipts and expenditure:— Receipts.—Average daily number of passojigers up (250 at Id.), .£1 os. 10d.; average daily number of passengers down (100 ac }d.), Is. 2d.; average yearly takings, £456 55.; debit balance, .£536 Is. Expenditure.— Interest and sinking fund, 5 per cent on ,£5716. .£285 165.; wages (three men, £3), dCIGS; electric lighting, .£26; Government inspection, JEI2 10s.; power, ,£150; maintenance, ,£25; office expenses, ,£52; total, ,£lOl9 6s The Mayor said that ho had come to the conclusion that there was such a difference on tho proposed earnings of tho undertaking as shown by tho engineer's figures and tho statement submitted by the deputation that it would bo only fair to send a copy of the report to tho responsible representative of tho deputation, so that tho council's side of tho question could bo considered by them. Tho deputation could then bo allowed to come to tho council again on the matter. This would give tho deputation the opportunity of criticising tho council's figures in the samo way that tho council had been able to criticiso theirs. This was agreed to.