NORTH SHORE DESTRUCTOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 8

NORTH SHORE DESTRUCTOR.

TALK OF ABANDONMENT.

"FUTlLr]'], , ' DECLARES MAYOR.

..Aii attempt was made last night to porsiiadc; the Takapuna Borough Council to a{rrctj>.to -the abandonment of- the NorUi.-Slipre dcetructor. at any rate in jyeficiit location. • .This--plant is the Ijoirityrop.b-'ty of - the boroughs of Devonporfj- Takapuiia and Nort'hcote.J" : , } : ;Mr. -f; $suiniven isaid 'that the rtcent jjreakc'o.wiiv was. cli;e to-faulty design ( and tiiat t!)e : "Jj33l wliich had; been expended in'veiiovatibiis'.had' been money wasted. He : ; delegates oh tlie destructor committee to agi-ea to the abandonment of the scheme. Tlie' Mayor; Mi-. '.J/.W. -Williamson, paid that the agreement 'bdtween -three partner boroughs was for a period of 10 years from 1926, and it was-futile for any partner, to talk of abandonment. Jforthcotp had discussed the possibility of applyiwg for an injunction to- l-estrain the committee,.from expending any further money on the existing plant, but that was idle talk." A lot had been said- of the worth of a plant at Onehunga, but several members of the destructor, committee had inspected it and were not impressed with it as suitable for the North Shore. .

' Mr. ■ Williamson said that complaints were not numerous, arid were < always fi;onithe same people. : - ■■ : ■■■• An amendment by Mr. Wilkie, io< the effect that no action be taken until such time as the new renovation work had been properly tested under working conditions, ~ was carried, the dissentients being Messrs. Collins, Guineven and Gibson. .