Title:  The Irish Builder, xviii 180
Date:   15 June1876
Place:  Kingstown, Ireland

DOINGS IN KINGSTOWN

THE Kingstown Commissioners are managing to do some useful work, notwithstanding a great amount of talk and delay. The result of the proceedings of the last monthly meeting show that letters from the Local Government Board had been received, stating that it was within the board’s discretion to pay 1 per cent. commission on the £25,000 proposed to be borrowed in addition to 4% per cent.; 100 ft. kerbing, at 2s. 4d., from Mr. Dixon, and 100 ft., at ls. 11½d., from Mr. Doherty had been ordered. In reference to the proposed provisional order, the Local Government Board conveyed suggestions of their counsel, Mr. Monahan, Q.C., that permissive clauses should be introduced to enable the Blackrock Commissioners to discharge their sewage at the West Pier, and the Kingstown Commissioners at the Dalkey outlet at Bullock. These suggestions were approved. The surveyor’s report recommended the hiring of boilers for boiling asphalte, as the boilers purchased were not suitable till altered. Tenders had been accepted for 850 ft. of pipe sewer, in Waltham-terrace, from Thomas Sexton, for £129; 2,885 ft. of pipe sewer at Tivoli-terrace, from B. Pluck, for £500; and for 3,525 ft of pipe sewer, from Albert to Adelaide-road, across the fields, from John Pluck, for £580. These were the lowest tenders, except in the case of Waltham-terrace. Mr. M‘Evoy inquired what would be the cost of altering the boilers. The surveyor replied he had not as yet ascertained, but would by next meeting of the board. The surveyor’s report recommended the immediate employment of three additional men, horses, and carts, for use in the recently annexed portion of the township.