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of reconstruction of drains, etc.* The Local
Government Board had decided that there was
nothing in the Section mentioned which authorised
the demand for such plans, etc.—a defect now
remedied.
During the past year 414 drains were reconstructed,
tested with water and passed as sound,
and 81 old drains were tested for various reasons
and found still sound. The majority of the latter
had been re-constructed under the supervision of the
Sanitary Department, which now possesses a record
of such work dating back to the end of 1889.
Many other drains not on the register have been
relaid without any notice being given, over the
re-construction of which no supervision has been
exercised.
Combined drainage has demanded much time
* The principal section of the Act enacts that the Council shall have power
to frame bye-laws for the following purpose: —
"Requiring persons about to construct, re-construct, or alter the pipes,
"drains, or other means of communicating with sewers, or the traps and
"apparatus connected therewith, to deposit with the sanitary authority of
"the district such plans, sections, and particulars of the proposed con"struction,
re-construction, or alteration, as may be necessary for the pur"pose
of ascertaining whether such construction, re-construction, or alter"ation
is in accordance with the statutory provisions relative thereto, and
"with any bye-laws made under the said section." (i. e. Sec. 202,
mentioned above.)
Such plans are at present obtained in (probably) the majority of cases where
drains are re-constructed or altered under the supervision of the local
authorities.