SEWERAGE WANTED

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3309, 1 April 1926, Page 4

SEWERAGE WANTED

(To the Editm - .) Sir, —May I per medium of your much read pages draw the' attention of your many readers to a matter which is of vital interest not only to those it directly concerns but also to the entire population of this town ? It is a tolerably well known and much complained of fact that many of our local streets are even yet without that great necessity—sewerage. I cannot emphasise too strongly the importance of this fact which is beyond a doubt a disgrace to a town of this size—a town which in a few short weeks expects to become the first inland city of this insular , Dominion. This matter is more especially one requiring urgent attention in view of the following facts; —> 1. Our' Borough Council can apparently afford to expend an extensive sum in shifting a fountain in the Square. If money is available for such matters surely It is available for the' protection of the health of the community. 2. I understand it is now proposed to instal heating in the local Opera House, an undertaking which would cost at least £7OO of the ratepayers’ money. The Opera House has done well for many years without heating, which after all is only an extra, nor is that building bringing in a greater revenue than formerly. 3. All property owners pay rates, and those of us who are deprived of the sewerage—that essential to our safeguarding against outbreaks of diseasehave to pay not only the usual rates for other people’s sewerages, but also an extra charge for tho services of a nightman. At the very least this is surely an unwarranted imposition on us. i. Our City Fathers must hold some fairly considerable funds for the sewerage of oup more recently formed streets. Let us take Rongapaj street, for example. I understand that some £BOO or thereabouts had to be deposited with the Borough Council for the above-mention-ed purpose before the street could be opened. Yet this street—the connecting link between Roy and Russell streets (both of which have sewerage laid’ bn) is unserved. I could mention many other examples, but space does not permit. How, I ask, can a town be ex-* pectod to progress when those who hblp to extend the town are offered ho Inducement, are charged extra rates and furthermore, arc deprived of the ordinary reasonable means of sanitation and. expected .to put up with the crudest and most primitive of conveniences?—! am, etq., . CATHERINE IjdSSIXGTON. V 24-Rongapai Street, ' ' / 'lJj’Limer'gton Horth.? ;