Cutting off the Gas Supply.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3042, 31 October 1888, Page 3

Cutting off the Gas Supply.

Thoro has 1 beoii a continual dread . ever since it was discovered that there jtp a leakage in the corporation gas rank'and'tho/water :was • subsiding, lost an explosion should take place. To avert this evil it wasdeenwl nece'Bsary. to puddle with clay all round the outer wall o ? the tank, Or Fiitou Baidat last nigbt'ameeting of <j<tte Council that.he M consulted

twocomfet 'iiUuthoritiesftnil obtained estimates. Ono h idiJie other. J!Bi ior puddling, lite wills of the'tank. Tuoy would only require | to stop the gas supply for thvco days, i r j I'itton said ilnit it roumined to n be proved wlietber there was ut leak c lit tho bottom after the sides wore ( puddled, and then nil that would be necessary would ho to put three incites of oeinont 011 tho inside of the link. Ho moved that the Gas Coin- 1 niittee have power to get the work dono under the supervision of Mr f Groad, and tlmt ho be fitthoriced to put on a sullicient number of men to d carry out the work with expedition, o I ho motion wits carried and full ant tority was given the Committee to b mt off tho gas and call for tenders t fir what was .requisite. The Works Jommittee were instructed to render all assistance in tiioir power.