An Improved Water Supply

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31320, 16 March 1967, Page 24

An Improved Water Supply

Methven is to have an improved water supply. The clerk to the Ashburton County Council, Mr J. H. Burns, said this week that an order-in-council had just been issued authorising the council to proceed with the raising of the loan for the scheme.

The scheme, to which the residents have agreed, will cost £50,000 and the county council has made a grant of £lO,OOO towards its cost. The residents will be rated to cover the financing of the remaining £40,000. An initial problem of no small importance at this time, however, will be the raising of finance to enable the scheme to be proceeded with. Mr Burns said that the scheme would not be completed under a year and it might be the middle of next year before it was completed. In other respects also Methven is going ahead.

Within the last three months improved street lighting has been installed throughout the township. All streets have now been sealed and sealing of footpaths is proceeding. In the building line Smallbones have recently erected a most impressive new motor garage adjacent to the Mount Hutt memorial hall. And now a start has been made on a new store for the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association. This building is opposite the firm's existing store. It will be 3120 square feet in area. It will have a steel portal frame and will

have corrugated iron walls and a full glass front. There will be a covered loading bay with a drive round arrangement for trucks and the bulk store will be at truck deck level. The new store will stock a full range of farmers’ requirements. The existing store will be retained for storage purposes. Ere long Methven may see some more new buildings. Shearer Brothers, Ltd., have in mind some new building and they would like to do this by next year, which is their fiftieth anniversary. The immediate project that they have in mind, according to Mr Bruce Shearer, is the erection of a new joinery shop, workshops and retail shop for themselves and also the erection of three other retail shops in this complex.