MORE GAS MAINS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10290, 19 July 1911, Page 5

MORE GAS MAINS.

REQUESTED BY RATEPAYERS. xhe Gas Manager reported to the Masterton Borough Council at its meeting last night as follows: The three-inch pipes for the short extension down Kuripuni Street are on the ground, and the work of laying same' will be started in the course of a few days. Re the Columba Road extension mentioned in any report dated the 4th inst., six householders have sent in signed applications for gas services. The nearest pipe is an extended service that was laid some three years back from the Maker a Creek to Mr W. lorns' residence. To give the applicants a good supply would necessitate the re-laying of the pipe in not less than 2in. from the creek to the last house in Columba Road, a distance of thirty chains, at a cost of about £IOOO. The revenue obtainable would be ibetween £25 and £3O per annum. The (two streets, Kuripuni Street and Columba Road, are on the same footing. Many residents would be pleased to become gas consumers, but tihe long lengths of highway with no residences ibetween the houses makes capital expenditure necessary out of all proportion: to "the revenue obtainable at the present time. Or O'Leary moved that the request of fbhe six residents in. Columiba, Rood be granted, and that £IOO be expended in laying a main. Cr Hoar seconded the motion. Cr Ewington moved as an amendment tharh the matter be held over ntil the end of the financial year. The amendment was seconded by Or Elliott, and carried.