A DANGEROUS DRAIN.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 62, 10 August 1944, Page 2

A DANGEROUS DRAIN.

(To the Editor Kaikoura Star). Through the courtesy of your valued columns, please allow me space for a correction to an erroneous statement reported in the account of the August meeting of the County Council. The councillors’ attention having been directed to a dangerous open drain, three feet in depth, at the corner of Deal Street and Main South Road, the Chairman stated it was not on the n>ain road, and therefore not the Council’s responsibility. This statement is wholly incorrect, as measurements from the survey pegs will verify. From the higher end it encroaches on to the main road, a distance of three feet, and at the lower end four feet. The Government survey pegs are the recognised boundaries in any county. These surely should decide any disputes and prevent any evasions of their responsibilities by the “Powers that Be.” This drain, as stated at the meeting, has been In existence for over fifty years, and is surely "long overdue for improvement, in order to avoid any further accidents, such as the serious one which recently befell a visitor to Kaikoura.—Yours, etc., ADVANCE HILLTOP.