BOROUGH COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 8 June 1912, Page 5

BOROUGH COUNCIL

MONTHLY REPORTS. j In his monthly statement, to be presented at Monday night's meeting of the Borough Council, the electrical engineer (Mr. H. BlackJ reports as follows: >' Extensions.—Tail-race: The , excavating and concrete work have been completed to the old water-course, the water being turned into the race on Saturday, Ist inst, There is still some filling to j do, but that is being left until some of the more urgent work is done. Some openings are being made in the old race ' to let the water away and thus to increase the draught to a small extent. It h very doubtful whether the longer draught tubes will be able to be fitted to the 90-k.w. generator until the new = set is running, as the day and evening loads are too heavy to allow of this machine being shut down long enough to cut the opening in the race to fit the tubes. Pipe-lino The excavation of the ■ trench is nearly completed, and a start has been made in laying the scour main. V'i Some of the pipe material is beginning to arrive and Messrs Williams and ~i Meares have their staff employed making preparations for putting the pipes to- • i gether, .hut the weather has lately been 5 so wet that very little work could be -5 done. I I Building.—A good portion of the walls | has been put up, but this work ha# f been delayed by the weather. *1 Forebay—No work has been done on *| this during the past month, all hands . f| being put on to the race, pipe trench J and foundations. As soon as the scour ,'j main is laid most of the men will ba available for this work, and as the iron* work is arriving we hope to be able to ~ i push this forward very shortly. J | Machinery—All the turbine and gen-. ? I erator material and most of the switchI hoard is now to hand, and it is expected;.* very soon to start erecting. ' I J Connections—New consumers are being steadily added, the number for the nasi month being 25, making the total to data j 948. ,1 Temporary plant—The temporary generator, driven by the borough engine, : \ is now being run during the evening, j peak load to supply the street lighting.! tj Before this plant was ready for running v ' the load had grown so rapidly that too„ machines at the power-house could not j carry it, and the streets lights had to be j* left off. The highest recorded load so, : .'i far has been 224-k.w., about 200 k.w. be-'... Ing supplied by the power-house plant ■ and the remainder by the temporary ma*? j chine. The department was Unable to 4 /! take any more customers for heating r 1 this winter, and it has been necessary.";) to cut off one circuit supplying power for ' ; motors during the evening peak load, BOROUGH ENGINEER'S REPORT. ; '{ Streets—Gill street: Eight chains havo : ',) been remetalled and 40 cubic yards of:,metalling have been done. Liardet street: The metalling of this street be-.'y* tween Pendarves and Gilbert streett is -i| J now completed, and only requires rolling; which will be done as soon as the wea- '9 ther permits. -9 Kerbing and channelling Gilbert J street: The channel is now completed,9 i on the southern side between Liardet iIM and Cover streets. This completes the<9 kerbing and channelling and the 'II path on this piece. The roadway re* * quires making up, which will be done as ; - ! jB soon as the weather permits. street: The channel on both sides bar.tfl tween Pendarves and Gilbert streets is now completed. This completes tM ijfl kerb, channel and footpath'of this pieee. 9 Gill street: The kerbing, channelling an&Jfl footpath is now completed on the north- @9 em side between Eliot and High streefci, Tarring and sanding —Fifteen chains 19 of new tarring and saiiding have beettJjM done in Liardet, Queen and YoungjS streets. Loan work-—Streets: The .fomati<w'|jM and metalling is now completed in JohnJS street, and only requires rolling. Auh"«jM rey street: Th« formation and metalling'JH is now completed and only requires blinding and rolling. Morley street: <|H The culvert is now completed except the paving of the bottom, which cMLrjffl i not be done until the weather improveft>,|fl Molesworth street east: No work been done hem, as the carting of eartbJH in the wet would render the road passable. . Sewers—Buller street: ThltjH sewer is now completed. General.—The [waterworks caret&kwjjjß reports that he has had trouble with the Alters owing to tincH flooded state of the river during the month. The weeds at the old waterworks have been cut, but the fences urtrfl down, allowing the cattle to get on to H the reserve portion. One "hundred and H twenty cubic yards of patching haw H been done on the various streets and H