PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 8 September 1926, Page 17

PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

SEWERAGE SCHEME DISCUSSED SUGGESTED EXTENSIONS. iFrom OJr Special Correspondent.) i PCKEKOIIE, rhis day. A spei'iai meeting of the I'ukekohe Borons;!} L'oiin'il was held ia=t evening to iif;il with exreii-i'ins to tae i'ropo=e<l draiuj-:.' <.-liHme. The? Mayor. Mr. J. Routly. pr'.'skloil uver a full council, w'tiiie the liminapro Mr. T. V. Gulliver, of Au.kl.iinl. u:i< al=u prpispnr. were submitted dealing with rh'- stfwerins of Tutura Avenup. I'rospei'C ltTM'-p and purt or' K;ist Strewn, ta* , :ua:•■• I ■ ij.-t beiu,' £45"«. As far a.s the • ir.i:i:.i-'.- uf i ariton. Kirch and Station roails was ■ on.-frrW the ensine«»r i.-onrtil-iT"il r'.i.ir r!ie >-outour of thp ground in LU>*s.' i'i.-a;i:ii-s wuiild ruake tue work tn.j pxpi'usive. an.l that it n'uulJ be bertfr to • ■ousiiUT the who.* , arpa to the south of K.i-t Srreet as drainin.? to a future dis-p..-a! wi.rlis in that direction. The sreater part "f th» urna to the north of East Street hetu-een Frauklin Uoail anil Prospect Ter- ; r:i'H-. Ui> drained when required to tbe disposal works in Franklin Road. The r.i~; of draining Dublin Street and Princes Street was p.=t;matt>d at £40i*r>. while that •if draiuns Victoria Street tloiW. If these areas were ini'luded. ir would be necessary i ro enlarge th" proposed treatment works to df-al wirh a population of 22W, instea.l of a population of loin), as was originally intended, aad •■ost of the enlargement would be somewhere between £1000 aad i £1.3"':. J ■\Vith tbese extensions the Mayor reported ' rhar. the .-.!<t of the scheme would b-» upwards of t'3i\<W). | It was erentuall.v derided to ascertain if : the residents of Victoria. Dublin and Princes Streets were agreeable to beins included in the schpme. The was asked to proceed with rjje sewerage plan for the area east of the railway line, and to report as early as prac- ' rhvihlp the approxiaiarp cost o f including I'.irlton Roail and Station Eoad in the proposal The engineer irave details ooncernins the | .icrivared sludse process of dealing with the sewase. and be was directed to obtain i nil information possible fmm rh» Acrivared S!ud=e Company, and also if rhe Health Department would obtain an unbiased ; reporr on the merhod from the Ministry of ' Health in England.

In riuir of P'lssihlHry of rho from rh(» rrp;)tir.pnr wnrk< ht»ini run into the PneiMM i~reek. it was ilPcMeil ro h:ivn samples of the w:itpr taken- for analysis prprv monrh for ck-plvp mnnrlis. tn ascertain if the wafer w;is polluted all the vp;l--rnnniL and prior ro rim of th» effluent into rbis The information is rpouired in cast , nf possible fntutv clevelopmenr:-.