SEWAGE WORKS SITE DISPUTE

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 1

SEWAGE WORKS SITE DISPUTE

(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, April 6. Although its proposal to site a sewage treatment works near a new dairy factory in the Waipa County has raised a storm of objections, the Hamilton City Council has made no formal application to the Waipa County Council for permission.

The site is in Pukete road in the county, just outside the city boundary. The main objection to the proposed site is the possible effect on New Zealand’s export markets. A county council spokesman says the city council has taken advice and believes it has no need to make application for conditional use of the site. But the county council has legal advice to the contrary. Government action against the siting of a sewage treatment plant at Pukete road was demanded by a meeting of 100 ratepayers and resi-

I dents of Te Rapa, Te Kowhai ; and Hamilton at Te Kowhai ’ last night. i Assurance Given The chairman of directors s of the New Zealanu Co-opera-t five Dairy Company, Ltd., Mr .- F. L. Onion, said that before f deciding to build the £3 milg lion factory at Te Rapa, his company had been assured by t the Mayor of Hamilton, Dr. ■■ Denis Rogers, tha‘ the 1 sewage plant was to be sited ? at Tauhara, well away from ■ the factory. Another m ting of ratepayers at Orini this afternoon also demanded Government action.