Engineering Notes.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 11, 1 July 1920, Page 845

Engineering Notes.

The Thames. Harbour Board is seeking permission to raise a loan of £275,000 for the purpose of constructing an outer harbour and the necessary harbour works in connection therewith.

The Lyttelton Harbour Board is also desirous of borrowing the sum of £150,000 to be 'used in the construction of certain harbour works as follows,: —Electric capstans, additions to wharves, electric cranes, and deepening the harbour.

A poll of ratepayers in Auckland was taken last month on the proposal to raise £50,000 for electrical extensions as recommended by the Mayor, Mr. Gunson. The engineer, Mr. Wyllie, is to be sent to United States and England to buy the necessary plant.

A poll was taken early this month in the. Te Awamutu power district on the proposal to raise £120,000 for reticulation. The voters were unanimously in favour of the loan, no votes being recorded against it. The materials for the work are now being landed, and operations will be commenced at an early date. The Mayor of Waihi has received the following communication from the Minister for Public Works relative to the electric supply to the hospital and to consumers in the main street:"lt is expected that the Department will be in a position later on to undertake this work either on its own account or on behalf of the borough, as the latter may

elect, and to supply power accordingly, either retail or. wholesale, in accordance with the standard scale of charges.' ;

On the proposal to raise £120,000 for electric reticulation in the Te Awamutu Electric Power District, a poll taken on July Ist was unanimous, no votes being recorded against the proposal.

line Borough Council of Palmerston .North recently decided to take up the tramway question again, the position having undergone a change since the decision of the Government to remove the railway line from the centre of the town was made known.

•Messrs William Ferguson (Wellington), Blair Mason (Dunedin), and Cyrus Williams (Christcnureh), the Engineering Commission to the Wairoa Harbour Hoard, have submitted a scheme of harbour works at Waikokopu. The cost of the first instalment would be £165,1)00, and the main scheme £268,000, a total cost of £433,000. If the main scheme were proceeded with, the first cost is estimated at £333,000, a saving of £IOO,OOO, and for that sum the Board could obtain complete shelter for vessels of a draught of 38 feet. The Board has decided to ask Mr. Blair Mason to state his terms for supervising the work. The proposal by the Mount Eden Borough Council to raise a loan of £50,000 to carry out various road improvements in the borough was submitted at a poll of ratepayers last month. The sum of £48,250 will be expended on the construction and improvement of roads and streets now partially constructed and incomplete; the formation and improvement of roads and streets not previously formed; and the provision of all plant and machinery required for such work. The sum of £1750 will be spent on the laying out and improvement of Potter's Park.