DRAINAGE OF NEWTON AND PONSONBY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9194, 25 October 1888, Page 6

DRAINAGE OF NEWTON AND PONSONBY.

TO 'rriE editor. Sir,—ln your issue of Monday last a local appeared having reference to tho Newton water supply, and you further think it n pity that the Newton Borough cannot undertake the drainage of the gullies in Surrey Hills, which during tho coming summer arc likely to prove a lever bed, owing to the drainage going in the direction of Cox's Creek, and to be a scourge to tho residents of Ponsonby West. It has been suggested that a culvert be put into the creek to convey tho sewago to deep water. Now, Sir, I consider if tho Newton Council will complete tho system of surfneo drainago commenced by them last summer, they will have done all that is necessary for thorn to do for years to come. I need hardly remind you, Sir, that it has been considered the correct thing of late, from a Ponsonby point of view, to roundly abuse the Newton residents about sanitary matters in general ; but if the good folks of Ponsonby should leave off their long-sighted spectacles and direct their attention to that portion of their valuable estateviz., from Richmondstreet (near Mason's) to Richmond Road (Newton boundary). The whole of this area drains into Cox's Creek. Whon the city authorities convey this drainago and the other unsavoury material accumulating therein to the deep waters of the Waitemata, by culvert or otherwise, it will be time enough to talk of dealing with the small amount of drainage that comes from the high lands of Surrey Hills.—lam, &c., Newton Resident.