WEST HARBOUR AFFAIRS.

Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 13

WEST HARBOUR AFFAIRS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In what I consider to be a very fair letter “ Progress ” implies that I advocated a new sewerage system. This, however, was not my intention. My main idea was to point out the indiscriminate way in which the rubbish from the drains was disposed of. I quite realise the heavy cost that would he entailed by a new sewerage system, but perhaps the present one could he made more satisfactory by tho simple addition of a hand-cart or barrow to the surfaceman’s equipment. The material from the drains is mainly disposed of by the simple method of throwing it over the nearest bank. This system is at a disadvantage where there are houses on either side of the road. A cursory glance down Bay View Terrace will prove this. Here the material is shovelled to tho middle of the road. While the recent rains have dissipated all traces of the evil smell to which I referred. I. will take, for example, the corner of Harbour Terrace and Montague street. I am sure anyone who passed here on Monday night would agree with me. As for Mr Donnelly’s suggestion of ray taking a stand, he apparently forgets that the borough returns nine members to the council, and among Conservatives like Mr Donnelly my voice would be “as a small voice crying in the wilderness.”—l am, etc., B .Wake Up. February 12.