NORTH SHORE DESTRUCTOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 11

NORTH SHORE DESTRUCTOR.

POSITION OF BIRKENHEAD.

URGED BY MEDICAL OFFICER.

COUNCIL MAINTAINS ATTITUDE.

l!oj»!yin« lo ihe ro-r-eut resolution of iho liirkonhcdd Borough Council regarding the combined refuse destructor for tlic North Shore, a communication read at last night's mooting of toe council from Dr. H. Cbcsson, Medical Officer of Health, expressed surprise that a collection of refuse in the Eirkcnhead borough was considered by tbe council to bo unnecessary. Ho could quite understand the council if it was stated that in the outlying part* of Birkenhead, where the holdings were Urge, refuse collection was not vet required, but purely it could not be held that such service was not ne-cessary in the oIoMT sou led portion of tnat district. It was in lhat <ii*trirt that Ihe Department required lhe cuu&ril jo farni&h a service.

The letter continued:"At far as I am aware, yours is tae only boroug'h in the vicinity of Auckland which ia not provided with Mjch a service, which if a]war« considered eMeatial where houses are close together. The however, is thai, you aro required by lac Board of Hc-aJth, under Scciion 2Z of the Health Act, to provide a destructor for ihe disposal of refuse in cerojuncJion «i:li she neighbouring borough*-, mch coutm , having been agreed uj»o.. by a committee n-prcscnS-ing the Horoughs on the North Shore, and on which committee yon had reprcsv)Latirefr. That you will have to make some ] rovjMc.n for the collection and disposal of household refuse in your borough is certain, and the. disposal of refuse by means of tipping is ner*>r, or rarely, satisfactory. 1 do not think you will find a euitablc dump in your locality. I. is surely preferable to your council to join in with the other Itoronghs in this scheme than to stand aloof, and possibly come in later at a biggt-r cxpeiiditure, a< you Inevitably must. It will certainly cost your borough more Jo put up a de«tructor of »its own than it wonld to join the scheme. In the meantime, the position is that you hare been served with a requisition by the Board of Health, nnd you are called upon to oarry out certain sanitary work. I t-hall be g/lad if y<in will romjilv Jherewi'.h."

Th«> Mavflr. Mr. K. (;. Kkea'.c*. po'.niivl <.u: ihat th*-re nothing new in lac mivJical ofljf-*-! - * Icn-cr. irhich v. a* in an«\vcr to the intimation Uiat the council could not see its way to carry out the proposal. It was "only reasonable that tlic Hoahli Department should prove neceiseity before enforcing compulsion. On hi* motion. i\>e 3<-n<T was received.

Another communioatum fi.«m the town clerk. Mr. H. L. Bouden. otau-d that the Takapuna Boron»r (0:11501] wa* prepared to act on the r<qui.ition in concurrent- -irftb tlio borough.

The Mayor said the Matcmcnt a; \ho recent meeting of the Takapuna Council to the effect that the Birkenaead Council had repudiated the contract, made by Ihe last council, was incorrect. Tlic matter was introduced bv Dr. H. Chesson. whose letter was referred to the Marine Ilorou«h«' Association. «h)csa was formed to ditcu** matter* of j Jn teres i to the Xorth .Shore n,at association had no power to do anv ' thing beyond makinjr ; to.tho local bodies concerned. Tlie iHea of di«cuscj n? jj, c itr h on3o wa , lo fin<} j out what was inlendc.J. Afler a^- r . Uininjrtae fipun * in Fcbruarv from tlusocreUry of ff, e -he connri! recopnised the nuedjoi, nas tot , w | for Bjrkenhead. and decision ;u« <ie" ! ayed to pve the ne*r roußci! an opj.ortunity of con.iderin? it. To MT 'the council had ii«elf 1.e.~,i, C e i- i had representative* on the awdriatJoii U.-.S wrnn-. The cnndl did rn.j became , liable hecinM. it* representative* dis- 1 oussed the matter, not nnUI thr council aprecdl and Mgned ~,,. Tfl e oo,, nrjJ ha<i | Mid the scheme «m, not needed at Bir kentead. and the expenditure involved unneoessarv. j"»oi»cj ,

It was derided to wnd a replv l<, ,v* the Maynr's explanation.