GREYMOUTH DRAINAGE WORK.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 February 1901, Page 4

GREYMOUTH DRAINAGE WORK.

At the Borough Council meeting on Thursday evening, Mr Lord reported as follows upon the drainage works now proceeding in Greymouth:— 41 1 have the honor to report on the progress of the drainage works as follows :

Tainui Street 18 inch pipe for 14 chains Hinchley Lane 12 „ „ „ 2'5 „ it a 9 a a a 7 o „ n ii 6 // /; H 4 0 i, O’Donnell’s lane 6 „ „ „6 - „ Murray Street 15 „ „ „8‘ „ Chapel Street 12 „ „ „ 9 „ Alexander street 9 ~ „ „ 7 „

Total length 58’5 chains Total cost of same £325 1 7 Original estimate 747 13 0 Cost over estimate ... £7- 8 7 Or say 10 per cent estimate, which may be considered very satisfactory considering the difficult nature of the ground. “Mr Warnes’s work is as follows : Pukctahi Street 9 inch pipe for 8 chains Alexander „ 9 „ „ „ 4 - 5 „ a a 9 a ,i ,i 3 o u Arnott’s Inno 6 „ „ „ 3’_ „ Poketahi Street 6 „ n , t 2'5 „ Total length 215 chains Total cost of same... ••• £205 13 10 Original estimate * 218 2 0 Cost under estimate ... £l2 9 2 “It will be seen that we have completed to date exactly one mile of sewer at a cost of £IO3O 15s sd. “ All the house connections have been jnade as the work proceeded. “The cost of the house connections amounts to £127 8s 9d, which sum is a charge against the householders, and will be collected from the owners in instalments as provided in the Act. “The work is proceeding very satisfactorily (10 per cent over the estimate being very close work), and the only detriment is the slow rate at which the pipes are delivered, but the shipment per Clyde and a further shipment coming , per Omapere will keep u 8 {going for a

while. It must not be expected that a number of men can be put on at this work ; to work economically, about 8 men in a fall are ample.

“ With regard to the accident insurance nothing has been done—one company declining to take half the risks, and saying it is too small to divide. I therefore ask the Council to instruct me in the matter.”