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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue XXI, 2 April 1884, Page 4

; f , ' Oveb one'hundred ratepayers.in Alm^ Placiand Brookville, Ponsonby, including portions of Franklin, Ponsonby, and CollfeeHoads, have petitioned, the Oity Coudicil to' xnsin sewer for ihat largj* and densely populated district in ita laatrcral position, the gully running from jh%'foot of College Hill right up the •difflrict.. - There . are, so ..-the petition • asairU-, about 284 houses and a population : of pbout 1400—more, than one-fourth of--' thl.nntiio populatiau. of the -ward-—very immediately affected in their health and lijaa through want of drainage. - The - is the receptacle of the drainage for the' district • corned. The evil effects of arl' •' elongated . cesspit," ; which , gwly . is, ' in-; such a populous tAfct have been felt ' for, years. 1 -. Low alii typhoid fe'ver have had their home: a'. that neighbourhood "for several fears; They are'there nod'. Bafc these ; piseases and the deaths that have taken ' "place, both how and ;in former years, (have not been confined; to . the. streets [andrained near the gully and the noisome ■jrm'eUs. Franklin-road on;the "one aide, , and. Ponsonby-road, the farthest boundary ' on another, "have both yielded their victims'.to the fevers caused by the want of drainage. So surely as is-the existence of foetid matter in gullies near human' habitations, bo aurelywill fever of a | typhoid character ba found attacking and carrying away aome of the inhabitants. As a ; part of.tHe_loah is .specially raised for _ drainage', and toad formation, the petition avers that thai work required is a special charge on the loan few: Ponsonby, for it .will both be a main i critin for fourteen hundred people, and. will form at the same time culverts in four now cut off from College-road from the want. thereof. There'ia-some talk, we are informed, of: calling a publio meeting of the ratepayerftof the district in referenae to this subject, and inviting the representatives of the ward to attend it, that they may farther'clearly learn the wishes of a large portica of the filectorate of the ward.. .