MASTERTTON BOROUGH GASWORKS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2227, 23 February 1886, Page 2

MASTERTTON BOROUGH GASWORKS.

The contractor for the erection of tl|e Borougji Gas Works, Mr Joseph Dawson, is making headway with the buddings. The concrato foundation walls of the main building are all completed. The length of the outside wall is 93ft, and the width is 3,3 ft. The building is subdivided to contain a retort house, which is 36 feet by 3Q feet inside measurement, a workshop 15 feet by 20 feot, the purifying house, 2Q feet square, which is to be arched over, the lime house, 20 feot by 15 _ feet, and the station meter house, which is 15 feet square, The foundation has beon sunk to the metal, and the oonovote walls built thereon. In addition, something over 1000 yawls of metal have been removed, and another 50p yards have to be taken out, before the foundation can bo laid for the gasometer. Tho whole area of this foundation is to bo puddled 18 inches thick, the brickwork is to be founded.upon that, and the whole area of the inside of tho tank, after the puddle is on, is to be covered with a coating of Portland cement six inches thick. The pit for the gasometer is dug out to 60 feet in diameter, and the walls of the pit are up to the present, fortunately for contractor, standing well. A.No. (j Douglas pump is rigged up to 10 or 12 feot above the level of the ground, and a stand is erected to hold a large water tank, from, whjoh, bj means qf ail indii\rabberhoso, water'will ho supplied,"tq tlm wprkmen for- the bricks aiid content during the erection of tho building. The bricks are being made on Mr W, Adams' land, at tho site of the Works fcliafc were jn operation some six years ago, and tho clay is very good in quality, The contractors for making the bricks are Messrs Libeau and Banks, men of European and extensive colonial experience in this work. All the bricks used for the Lyttleton tunnol were made under the suoerintendance of Mr Banks, and the more recent work at the Pukerau on Mr S. Brown's railway contract, West Coast. About 40,000 bricks are stacked and sun dried and ready for the burning, Mr Ellison, an experienced man, whose speciality is brick burning, is engaged building i|p fljq flues; and''stacking the' dy(ep; bricks ready for the burn which will be started on Thursday, There aye five flues and the bricks have been faced with limestone blocks to top them from immediate oontaot with the fierce heat of the tire, By this means the brioka will be burnt harder withom having a number of them destroyed. The bricks are a larger size than have been used in Masterfcon before and willmeasurethree inches in thickness when burned. Another noticeable feature is, thatthefrogisvery shallow; tho bricks with a deep frog, being liable to collapse in the burn, The fires, will he drawn on Tuesday, when ij; is, hoped' fcne |rs| hajch (if'tlye 130V6'06 order will be turned aqt, and found to contain botween. 30,000 and 40,000 good bricks. The brick makers state their intention qf astonishing the natives of Masterton before they leave the district, by turning out a supply of bricks at such ii price, that will enable, builders to supcrocdo the present building material with brick,