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Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2494, 22 March 1878, Page 2

With reference to the question of Eden Terrace drainage, we have received from Mr Warren (Chairman of the Karangahape district) and Mr E. W. Morrison (Chairman of the Arch Hill district) a statement of their view of the question. They think that our remarks yesterday were rather unjust to the trustees of their respective districts, because " neither of the districts has offered the slightest opposition to the drainage of the pond into the gully, provided that the work is done in such a wav that the nuisance caused shall be reduced to a minimum." Their position is thus stated :—" What we object to is that nearly the whole of the closet drainage of the Eden Terrace district and the fermenting grain and wash from the two breweries in that district, should be thrown into the centre of our districts in an open drain, which would, under our warm sun, send forth poisonous vapours. The Karangahape and Arch Hill districts are thickly inhabited as compared with the Eden Terrace district, and as the ploset washings and brewery refuse in that district have already generated scarlet fever, what might be expected when the same nuisance is thrown into more thiokly inhabited districts, in addition to the nuisance inseparable from the many habitations already erected in the two districts. While we are anxious to look after the present interest of the districts of which we are trustees, we would like to protect the future interests as well. If the tunnel proposed were constructed, and the drainage of Eden 1 "istrict thrown into ours, what would be said when the nuisance, which is sure to follow, began to develope itself? We would then be informed that we should have looked to the matter in time, for now it was too late. A right to drain the Eden Terrace District into ours would have been acquired, and it would then be more expensive and troublesome to obtain redress than it is at present to control the nuisance." The trustees profess every readiness to meet the Eden Terrace trustees fairly and will coincide in any equitable arnmgement to prevent the evils which they anticipate from the discharge of the Eden drainage into their district. They complain that the Eden Terrace trustees proposed to force their drainage through the Karangahape and Arch Hill districts without in any way consulting the local bodies of the districts affected, and say that their actionisnotinstigated by any unfriendly orunneighbourly feelings, but all they insist upon is that if the Eden Terrace drainage is conducted into Karangahape aud Arch Hill, provision shall be made that neither at present nor in the immediate future shall it prove an intolerable nuisance. This being the spirit in which the trustees of Karangahape and Arch Hill are prepared to meet those of Eden Terrace, we should think there need no longer be any difficulty in arriving at an arrangement by which the work, which is very urgently needed, may be carried out without further delay. It is not likely that the Government will proceed with'the proposed tunnel in defiance of any reasonable objection from the two Boards that may be affected by the diversion of the Eden Terrace drainage, and it is much better that all parties should come to a satisfactory understanding. We would suggest, as the best means of arriving at this, that a jjjoint consultation between the local bodies should be held. If this were done while the Hon. Mr Sheehan is in Auckland, the obstacles which threaten to defeat a most necessary work might be removed, and Eden Terrace relieved of an evil which seriously menaces the health of the whole district.