COX'S CREEK SEWER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 33, 8 February 1910, Page 7

COX'S CREEK SEWER.

A letter was read from the Town Clerk, Auckland, at the meeting of the Grey Lynn Borough Council last night with regard to the request that the nuisance arising in Cox's Creek owing to the discharge of sewage from the city into open gullies be remedied. The letter stated tbat the channels had been cleared out, and the sewer would be d'onc when money was available.

The MayoT (Mr. W. J. Holdsworth) said it puzzled him a great deal that an important body like the City Council should treat in such a manner this question of drainage at Cox's Creek. Ever since he had been in the Grpy Lynn Council they had been trying to get that sewer constructed. Either the City Council was avoiding its responsibility or was ignorant of the serious state of affairs. When this Council asked the city to do that work, Mr. Bush came forward with a scheme to cost £22,000. Of course, as that was only a temporary measure, even then Grey Lynn Council could not agree to such an expenditure, and asked the Borough Engineer, with the result that a scheme was submitted to cost £3,500, whereupon Mr. Bush said the amount ■was too much to expend upon the work. Mr. Holdsworth said it was hard to understand such action. The time had come when the Council must take a firm stand. He therefore moved that the following letter be sent to the City Council:—"We regret exceedingly that your Council cannot see its wav to adopt the scheme submitted to you by the Grey Lynn Borough Council. The- measures suggested in your letter we regard as totally inadequate to abate the nuisance caused by the sewage from your district. We would respectfully urge your Council to reconsider its decision regarding the above drainage, and would suggest a conference of both bodies that some solution of the difficulty may be arrived at which will prove satisfactory to all concerned."

Mr. J. A. Warnock seconded. Hβ said he had twice been on deputations waiting on the Works Committee, and came away with the feeling that he had had a slap in the face. Strong measures must be taken to compel the City Council to abate the nuisance.

The motion was adopted.