A NORTH KILBIRNIE NUISANCE
• THE WAIPAPA STREAM. A petition has bean sent to the City Council, signed by about one hundred presidents of Kilbirnie, asking the corporation to cover in Waipapa Stream, which is said to have been polluted by the council in consequence of its action in allowing residents to empty slops into stormwater channels winch drain into the, stream. The petitioners consider that the stream has become a nuisance and a menace to the bealth of the district, and they suggest that a proper remedy would fee to declare the stream a public drain, in which case it would be competent i for the Public Health Department to order it to be covered up. Tbe drainage system now being installed at Kilbirnie will not be a remedy, it is said, inasmuch as all the houses will not be taken in by it at once, and those left unconnected will still, be drained into this stream — together with the whole of the houses built, and in course of erection on the Hataitai estate, for which locality no- drainage has been arranged so far.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 65, 14 September 1909, Page 7
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184A NORTH KILBIRNIE NUISANCE Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 65, 14 September 1909, Page 7
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