COX'S CREEK DRAINAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 48, 25 February 1910, Page 4

COX'S CREEK DRAINAGE.

We are glad to learn that the City Council has at last decided to take active steps io abate the dangerous nuisance created by the insanitary condition of Cox's Greek. As "we have already explained at some length, the difficulty has arisen chiefly because two of fho City sewers have not been carried down far enough into the tideway.*. The responsibility thus rests chiefly on the City, but at the same time, the Grey Lynn Borough Council has all along been prepared to fcako its fair share of tfic expense. Tho City Engineer's proposal involves an expenditure of only £1100, and as this will be divided between the City an<t. Grey Lynn in proportion to the areas drained, it will be a very economical scheme. Mr. Bash stfll seems inclined to deprecate any temporary arrangement of this sort, on the ground that "it would have no value beyond the period when the main drainage scheme was completed." But the whole difficulty is that we cannot afford to wait till the main sewer is constructed and the city's drainage scheme is brought to its natural end. That may take several years to accomplish;

I and in the meantime city aird suburbs alike would be exposed to the lavages of the epidemics that will inevitably be generated in these pestilential mud flat's, if they are not taken in hand in time. We still think thai dt would 'have been well for the City Council to accept Grey Lynn's request for a conference; for no I doubt the distribution of the expenditure and other details of the scheme will need careful discussion. However, the important point 03 that the City has at lust been induced to move in the master, thus thoroughly justifying the protests so frequently made in our columns against the disgraceful condition of things that has existed so long ait Cox's Creek and though criticism at such a moment' may sound a little ungracious, we cannot help wondering, if the City Council is prepared to act now, why it has so strenuously refused to do anything before.