REFUSE DISPOSAL

Evening Star, Issue 22595, 12 March 1937, Page 9

REFUSE DISPOSAL

CONTROL OF TIPS The Works Committee of the City Council reports that a request has been received from the Ocean Beach Domain. Board for the council to take over the control of the hoard’s tip at St. Kilda, subject to a number of conditions. Ims tip is used by both the Dunedin City Council and. tho ...St. Kilda _ Borough Council, and at, the present time these two bodies contribute the tipman s wages in tho proportion-of approximately three-quarters to one-quarter respectively. . The tip has been inspected and it is evident that considerable expenditure will have to be incurred in the matters of access, fencing, etc., to put it into order. The amount is estimated at approximately £BOO, of which sum th© St. Kilda Borough Council should contribute one-quarter—i.e., £2OO. With regard to the future maintenance of the tip, it is considered that two tipmen would be required. The St. Kilda Borough Council should therefore pay to the City Council £l5O per annum for maintenance attention. • The matter has been fully considered, and the committee recommends that, the Domain Board’s request he agreed to, subject, however, to the following conditions :

(a) That tipping operations be confined to areas and levels to be approved by the council. (b) That this tip have first call on all the Dunedin and St. Kilda surplus construction material and street sweepings. (c) That the working of the tip be changed from uncontrolled to cratrolled tippiiig, the latter method being that adopted on the City Council tips.