HAMILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2506, 2 August 1888, Page 3

HAMILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

A special meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council was held in the Council Chamber!), on Tuesday evoning. There wpro present: His Worship the Mnyor, (in the chair), and Crs. Knox, Sandes, Salmon, Wood, Missen, Bell, von Stunner and Jones.—The Clerk read tho notico calling tho special meeting to consider the report of the engineers' with reference to the drain from Grey-street to tho river, and then read tho engineers' report as follows :— Hamilton, July 28th, 18SS. The Hamilton Borough Council. Gentlemen,—ln accordance with your instructions of 27th inst., wo have this day inspected the road near the Royal Hotel, and have the honour to recommend as follows " That the drainage bo led down Cook-street to the river by taking up tho pipes as at present laid in Cook-sWeet, and relaying them on tho other side oKtrey-street from the existing suniph towards the river, a distance of about 70 feet in length, to be fixed at end of pipes to about two feet below the present water level in river As the watertable about three chains farther south in Grey-street appears to bo lower than the sumph referred to above, another sumph should be fixed there, and the six inch pipes which are said to bo laid beneath tho watertable taken up and relaid to connect the two Owing to the early character of the ground, all the pipes and the should be bedded in and completely caseo with well wrought puddled, and the joints carefully clayed as well, and as it appears probable that the failure of the pipes as at present laid is largely due to want of care in this respect, we would recommend that the laying and puddling of the pipes and shoot bo dime by day labour by a reliable man. The raising of the old pipes wouli probably be done cheaper by contract. The sizes of timber shown are to suit timber procurable. The gratings over the sumphs should bo domed instead of flat as at present.—T. G. Sandks. Henry H. Metcalfe.—The Mayor said he thought that it would be better to connect the two Biimphß with 9-inch pipes instead of C-inch ones as recommended in the report.— Cr. Jones inored that the report by the Engineers', re works in Grey-streot as read, be adopted, and that the whole matter be left in the hands of the chairman of the Works Committee to get the work done in the most economical manner.—Seconded by Cr. Salmon and carried. —This being all the business the Council rose. V