The whole of the proposed works had been designed with a view to the completion of the scheme at a later date by the construction of the large dam already mentioned with the requisite catchwaters to intercept additional drainage areas and the erection of the necessary additional pumping plant, when the suction main referred to in (iii) would be taken up and laid as a duplicate rising main. The reser- voir now proposed would not be overlapped by the large one to be constructed hereafter and would therefore be of permanent benefit for storage purposes.
The estimated cost of the works included in the first section was as follows :-
1. Dam to impound 194 million gallons,
2. Construction of pumping station including formation of site,
3. New road from junction with Stanley Road to near Tytam Bye-
wash Reservoir (length 1.40 miles),
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$290,000 50,000
98,000
4. Access roads to pumping station and Gauge Basin and track for
temporary suction main,.
20,000
5. Rising main, 18" diameter, from pumping station to Tytam Gauge
Basin (length 2.03 miles),
98,000
6. Suction main, 18" diameter, to be subsequently used for duplicating
rising main (length 1.25 miles),
60,000
7. Pumping machinery already ordered, (two sets of engines, each capable of delivering 14 million gallons. per day) including erection,
108,000
724,000
Contingencies, say,
Total,
56,000
$780,000
The works required to complete the entire Tytam Tuk Scheme, for which it was not possible to submit an estimate at present, would be as follows:
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1. The construction of a large dam below Tytam Tuk village, with the necessary road
diversions,
2. An extension of the pumping station buildings,
3. The provision of additional pumping plant.
4. Taking up the 18" suction main and relaying same as a rising main, including the neces-
sary length of piping to complete same.
5. The construction of catchwaters to such extent as may be found advisable in order to
render available the water from areas situated outside the natural drainage area.
The Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that the scheme be at once proceeded with.
Establishment of a Convict Prison on Stonecutters Island. (38 C.O.D.).
Replies to the Committee's enquiries as to the amount which the Military Authorities would be prepared to contribute in the event of the Gunpowder Depôt being removed from Stonecutters Island as proposed, and
(a.) the proposal to erect a Convict Prison there being carried out,
(b.) the proposal to erect a Convict Prison there being abandoned,
were furnished. They were to the effect that, in the case of (a), the Military Authorities would con- tribute nothing, and in the case of (b), they were prepared to contribute £2,500 on condition that the site and buildings on it were handed over to them. This offer had been declined by His Excellency the Governor.
The question of erecting a prison on Stonecutters Island was then discussed, and it was ultimately agreed unanimously to recommend that the work be proceeded with as early as practicable.
The Committee then adjourned.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 7th day of December, 1903.
R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
W. CHATHAM,
Chairman.