DRAINAGE BOARD QUESTIONS
Sir. —"Acting Major.” after referring to your article on city drainage, proceeds to show his conception of that term to be the area of the piecart, as did also Councillors J. E. Jones and G. Manning on April 3. The report of the chairman of the Drainage Board, and your article thereon, show wider vision. Both, indeed, use the term “metropolitan area,” but doubtless know the hypothetical character of that artificial creation. The necessary scope, being the outer reaches of the Styx,. Avon, Heathcote and hills catchment area, shows this work of the compass to be as inapplicable to drainage as it is to every other practical matter. How effective, then, would amalgamation be, as asserted by devotees? However they are rescued from their geographical difficulties by Cr. Tait whose declaration that amalgamation would meet the problem of revenue for Harewood makes it from Picton to Bluff inclusive.—Yours, etc., \ W. R. EARLY. Hornby, April 30, 1951.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26409, 1 May 1951, Page 5
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