A QUESTION OF PLANS.
TRACINGS TO BE OBTAINED. When the contractor was putting down the kerbing in Princes street heavy rain fell and threatened to undermine and damage the structure. The vice-chairman of the Town Board (Mr. McDermott) and Mr. A. E. Barr Brown then gave authority for the placing of metal alongside the kerbing, and the cost amounted to £l9. This account was before the Town Board at its meeting on Monday evening and gave rise to some discussion, the chairman (Mr. Griffiths) being of the opinion that the engineer should be communicated with in cases like this, otherwise there was a danger of getting the estimates mixed up. Other members were of the opinion that the work was one of urgency and was justified.
Mr. McDermott caused the discussion to take a new turn by stating that the board members could nor get plans of the road works. Tracings of these should he available for members. The chairman said that if members wanted these they must be prepared to pay for them. Mr. Barr Brown asked where a certain plan was, and this caused the chairman to say that he did not have the plans, if that was what Mr. Barr Brown was driving at. The chairman then went on to say they were getting the engineering work at one fifth of the ordinary cost. Mr. McDermott said he was prepared to move that tracings be obtained and kept in the town clerk’s office for the use of members. Mr. Barr Brown then outlined the reason for the need for this, saying that he for one could not afford to waste time. ■ The Chairman : I waste as much time as any one of you on Town Board business. That the ple-’s should be in the Town Board office was the opinion of Mr. Yandle. Mr. McDermott took it that the
engineer had the plans or all works, and asked was there any reason why tracings of these could not be obtained. The discussion then took a further new turn, there being a diversity of opinion as to which side of certain streets should be kerbed. The matter ended by the town clerk being authorised to get fracings of the original map.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 295, 4 July 1929, Page 8
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373A QUESTION OF PLANS. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 295, 4 July 1929, Page 8
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