WATER FOR THE BAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 8

WATER FOR THE BAYS

(To the Editor.) Sir,-—The particulars supplied on page 9 of your issue of the 12th are very welcome. Ratepayers of Day's Bay have been considerably puzzled by the hide-and-seek attitude of Mr. Hoggard regarding giving effect to the Health Department's requisition to install an efficient water supply and drainage. I challenge Mr. Hoggard or anyone else to supply through the medium of your paper: — (1) Evidence that the majority of residences in Day's Bay are supplied with water from two dams in Williams Park. (2) That such supply constitutes a satisfactory supply of clear, clean, .uncontaminated water all the year around. (3) That most of the houses in York Bay are supplied with high pressure water of clear, clean, uncontaminatad quality all the year around. (4) That the majority of ratepayers in the Day's Bay area are opposed to {he provision of water,and drainage under the Health-Departments scheme as far as they are in a position to know about it as at present. (5) That the majority of Day's Bay ralepayers are in favour of Mr. Hoggard's continued resistance to the scheme as prepared by the Health Department and accepted by Eastbourne Borough Council. . ' I Day's Bay ratepayers are beginning to have their eyes open as to the value of the present water supply and drainage service, as compared with that of the Dominion's expert advisers. They are not going to be left in the lurch as a seaside bay with a deficient drainage and water supply system, and see Eastbourne soaring above them as a suburb offering more efficient sanitary service with a first-class supply of clear, cool artesian water. A general meeting of the ratepayers of Day s Bay, having in view these questions and their answers, will, I hope, only be too glad to help Mr. Hoggard to come to a right decision. —I am, etc., I ANTI-MICROBE RATEPAYER.