REFUSE BINS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 4

REFUSE BINS

REQUEST TO PUBLIC

A recommendation was made to the City Council last night by the works committee that, because of shortage of labour and x-estrictions upon the use of petrol and tyres, householders and others should be required to place their refuse bins at their gates, inside, for collection. Councillors were not at |one at all about it, and finally it was agreed that an appeal should be made to everyone to assist voluntarily. | Councillor W. Appleton, chairman of ' the works committee, said that the recommendation was made reluctantly, but for some time past considerable i difficulty had been experienced in maintaining the requisite staff for refuse collection and disposal, and that difficulty had been further stressed recently by sickness. The committee had considered making an appeal to residents in certain parts of the city to burn or bury refuse and also place bins at gates, but had decided that it would be more equitable if residents in all parts of the city were required to place their bins at the gates and also to bury and burn as much' ai possible. The proposal, if given effect to, would bring about a definite saving in man-Dower, and also the ooeration of several trucks, consumption of petrol, and wear and tear on lyres. The position would be reconsidered after the war. DIFFICULT FOR SOME PEOPLE. .Mrs. Knox Gilmer said that many women and old people were physically not able to carry refuse bins to the front gate. . I Councillor Appleton replied that, discretion would-be exercised. U was not proposed to bring the plan into immediate operation, but to bring it in j progressively, commencing in the outlying suburbs. Mrs. Gilmer thought that that was unsatisfactory. Why should she. for instance, be granted a concession and someone round the corner be refused and have to struggle down steep paths? The recommendation should include a provision "where possible." Councillor R. L. Macalister said that he had opposed the proposal in committee and he would move that the clause be sent back to the committee The concession given Wellington people some years ago had been given after much thought, mainly because of the configuration of Wellington.

The Mayor, Mr. Hislop, said that. it seemed to him extraordinarily difficult to introduce such a requirement upon a discretionary basis. t Councillor Appleton said that he was quite prepared to "request" rather than "require" householders and others to assist, and with this there was full agreement.

Also, said Councillor M. Fraser, suburban residents should be asked to bury or burn as much refuse as possible.