SEWER CONNECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1927, Page 9

SEWER CONNECTIONS

NEW LEGISLATION DESIRED

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "Tha Evening Post.")

CHKISTCHUBCH, This Day.

The City Council and the Drainage Board are at variance regarding the proposal by the former to promote legislation materially affecting the board's powers with reference to sewer connection by .householders. Tho Town Clerk has advised that the. following resolution had tfeen forwarded by the secretary of the Municipal Association for consideration at its next conference.:—

"That section 224 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, be amended to provide that in the construction of sewers and drains, where connections have to be made to premises, it be made mandatory for such connections to be executed simultaneously with the construction of such sewers or drains in order to avoid the heavy expense of .two separate reinstatements of the 'highway concerned; the cost of such connection^, which need be laid to tho block alignment only for the time being in each respective case, to be charged to and recoverable from the owner or the occupier of such ' premises. ''

It was decided to advise the council that the board could not support the proposal and would take the necessary steps to opposo it; .Mr. H. G-. livingstono remarked that Parliamont was scarcely likely to favour such a proposal. chairman (Mr. H. J. Otley): Tou don't know, it does some peculiar things sometimes."