WATER AND DRAINAGE.

Mataura Ensign, 14 October 1911, Page 4

WATER AND DRAINAGE.

The approach of tho warmer weather and the almost certain probability of a dry summer impending causes ratepayers to take thought for tho morrow. The experience of many who live outside the radius of the borough's jurisdiction and who were put to no little inconvenience last summer for the want of water will probably not be without its lesson and tanks will now be overhauled if other more reliable provision has not boen arranged for. Regarding the important water and drainage loan proposals affecting those within the borough it may be recollected that in June last the first steps were taken in this direction by the Council, it being decided to take a poll of the ratepayers on the advisableness of borrowing £6OOO for these works. The town clerk has gone into the matter very exhaustively in preparing estimates which have been agreed to by the Council and the statutory advertising has been done, while on October 30 the Mayor will explain the whole position at a public meeting. The poll is to be taken on NovemW 7, 14 d!ays' notice of which has to be given. We cannot too strongly impress upon ratepayers the imperative necessity of seeing that their names are on the roll for the ineffectiveness of blaming the officials for their own negligence when it is too late must be apparent to all. There is no doubt but tihat the proposals will be carried if the ratepayers exercise their civil privileges and recognise that it is only by the installation of sucli necessary schemes that the progress of the important centre in which they live is assured. Prudence

in miiiiißiiHil /i, laiu;o ig as necessal as in private affair* and those whose cry is Economise I" find no justification in refusing to countenance such works because of their expense. The town must be drained if only from the wisdom of the point of view of Health and the preliminary of drainage is water. After the proposals are assented to, if as is to be hoped such is the case, n „ delay will tako olace in getting iho drainage work carried out, as arrangements have been made whereby the material can be obtained almost immediately, though in tho case of the water there must necessarily be a delay of a few months as the material has to be cabled Homo for.