SOUTH DUNEDIN DRAINAGE.

Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 3

SOUTH DUNEDIN DRAINAGE.

TO THE EDITOR.' Sir, —In to-night’s ‘ Star ’ appears a letter signed “British Bulldog,” in which the writer says that the opinion of business men engaged in drainage work, as well as his own opinion, is that the remedy for our complaints respecting our drainage is a drainage engineer apart from the city engineer’s office. That may bo «o, but when will that eventuate? Are we to die of typhoid or diphtheria or something of the kind in the meantime with our sowers pouring foul stuff around our backyards? What about our Health Department? _ Has it not some say in matters of this kind? Wo hape health week, cleaning-up week, etc., and what a farce when we have drainage of this kind to put up’ .with ! Your correspondent of even date says that the suggestions of correspondents Nos. 1 and 2 will bring them very little satisfaction Irobabl f so, when, as has been the case, a drainage inspector arrives and tells the complainant that the sewers axe too small to carry the water when we have much rain. A lot of satisfaction in being told that, sir. Perhaps a largely-signed petition to the Health Department may stir things up a bit.—l am, etc., Resident. March 31.