ROSLYN DRAINAGE BILL

Evening Star, Issue 14523, 26 November 1910, Page 6

ROSLYN DRAINAGE BILL

[Fuo.m On; Parmamk-vtahy li’KuonTmt,]

WELLINGTON. November 26,

On (he Bosiyn Drainage Bill Mr T. E, Taylor moved that the .second reading lie. taken that, day six months, urging that it would he better to delay the matter, when Hoslyn would form part of a larger and more efficient scheme.

Tlio lion. .1. A. Millar said that any other .scheme meant the. imposition of a drainage rale of 2s 6d per head on every working man in the restrict. The proposed scheme would reduce the typhoid bacteria to a minimum. The. larger scheme spell (inancia! trouble to the dit=-t-ricts. 'The septic tank was a pronounced success in many parts of England. This was an attempt on the part of Green Island to dictate to Itoslvn.

Mr Allen regarded (.ho proposed scheme as unsatisfactory. If (.he Kaikorai was a newage channel, as tlio Minister suggested, (he Supremo Court should bo invoked. It was iiuoiTcct to say that tho City abattoirs would continue, their drainage into the Kaikorai. H had been arranged that (he abattoirs sewage should be conducted through the old railway tunnel into the City drainage scheme. Ho read a letter from the solicitor for (he Croon Island BoroiiL'h strongly protesting against life Bill. D. would he heller 1o delay the Bill (ban to impose a. serious di-s----ahilitv on residents of the Kaikorai Valley. Mr Sidov urged (hat (lie (rouble would be largely ovenome if the drainage of (ho Upper Kaikorai worn (alien through the tunnel. *

Tho Minister was understood (<> p.ay that- the Drainage Board refused to do po. Mr Sidoy contended that one drainage authority should altend to the matter on the lines of the recent Commission.

The report, was negatived by 26 lo 21

'ill" Non. T. Mackcnrip said the motion would not, 1 1 av<i been ted, if (ho center Government Whip had lobbied for ('lie Hill. It iva.s voi-y improper for Mr Wilford 1o have ill’ll I hat a <onteuiiou.s Hill of thin sort shot] I*l bo postponed white important measure, j of a non-contentions nature . like the Wcllinzton Dork Bill might flip throne:! i. Hie Hon. 11. M‘Kenzio ; It mnst stand over (ill next sitting day.

Sir Joseph Ward : Oh. no. Wo promised it shall eomo on to-dav.

Several Voice* : Another division in tho Cabinet. Mr Massey : I wish Ministers would settle their differences in Cabinet.

Sir Joseph Ward: -Tho Minister in char go of the Bill is responsible, H ]ms nothing to do with the Cabinet,

Mr Masecv ; What about the. Gaming Bill?

Sir Joseph Ward : I was responsible for it, and passed it. Tho Minister in charge agreed to Mr Wilford's suggestion, but. it is only too evident that the Bill will he talked out.