Gas Committee Report.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2980, 18 August 1888, Page 3

Gas Committee Report.

A. meeting pi the Gas Committee wns held on Friday evening. Present— Oi'fl Perry (Chairman), Macara, and 11 uir. Tho previous minutes were ri nd and confirmed. Tlio Gas Malinger reported thai 101,150 cubic feet of gas h id liuen manufactured (luring the past 17 days, Tho wuter in the gas tank was lower, by two inches than it had l>em for some time. Un Monday night tint water decreased 4ft. 4iu, This was accounted tor through some mischievous individual placing a saek over i lio grating at the mouth of the pipe in Bannister-street. Three samples ;of limn had been/tested, that of, Messrs Giahatii k Co., turning out thVmost economical. .The Committee, recommended that Messrs John Graham A Co's., tender for 12 month's supply of lime be accepted, That ,'tlie, manager | be instructed to have a padlock placed .placedon tho trap-door inßaunister'sireet, Mr T. -Dixon waited on the Committee with reference to having gas hid on to. his private residence,' Worksop-road, The .'Manager and Tow'irClerk wore instructed'to Ijnd out the cost and thenMrDixoa could place his application before the Council in writing, With reference to tbccorre'spondeuce.as to the quality of gas made, the Committee thought the Manager win paying every attention to the subject and they had no recommendation to mako, Accounts amounting, to LI 4 9s lid were passed for payment." The Committee after recommending the Council to- obtain 25 tons' of coal adjourned.