CEMETERY GULLY DRAINAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11372, 15 May 1900, Page 3

CEMETERY GULLY DRAINAGE

. A meeting of chairmen and representatives » of Road Hoards took place last evening at the Archhill Highway Board offices, to consider what steps should be taken with a view i to abate the nuisance from the Symonds- ' street cemetery gully drainage, and to ascerf tain what the City Council is prepared to do r in the matter, in order that the gully drain--1 age may be carried clear of the Western Springs to the sea. Mr. Jenkin (chairman f of the Archhill Road Board) presided. 3 Messrs. Catchpole, Baildon, and Casey (memr hers of the Archhill Road Board), J. T. ] Hough (chairman of Eden Terrace Road r Board). Bouskill (chairman) an-! Coyle (member of Mount Albert Road Board), were prer sent. After a general discussion, it was r decided to take steps under section 53 of the i Puolic Health Act, 1876, to have the nuisance 0 abated. Under that clause the Resident Magistrate may, on application, order the nuisance to be abated, and the cost of the work to be allocated among the local bodies j interested. The bodies stated to be interested were first the Borough of Auckland, . from which district the cemetery drainage, - and a part of the city household drainage, t poured into the gully, and following the 1 watercourse passed within a. chain of the I Western Springs. It was stated that the ? city was the original transgressor, but that ,' the following districts were more or less contributories, or interested in remedial i- measures Mount Eden, Eden Terrace, ,- Arehhill, Mount Albert, Qrcv Lynn, and I Point Chevalier. The city, it was stated, ,' had carried a sewer down the gully till within 60yds of the city boundary, where, it was a said, the city authorities held their liability • ended. The representatives of the Archhill ' district, which is the most largely interested II in abating the present nuisance, as it has a frontage to the gully equal to Eden Terrace 0 and ihe Mount Albert districts combined, ,_ contends the city is liable to contribute, as j the origin of the nuisance is within the city - boundaries, and the city is especially in- - terestcd in carrying the drainage clear of the Western Springs. It was proposed by Mr. r Bouskill, seconded by Mr, Hough, "That ■ I the opinion of the Board's solicitor be ob- ; tained as to the liability of the different ' bodies." It was moved by Mr. Jenkin, " seconded by Mr. M. Casey, " That an engineer be engaged to prepare a plan and esti- „ mate of cost of drain for gully." An v ; Executive Committee, consisting of Messrs. a i Hough, Bouskill, and Jenkin, was api. i pointed, the latter gentleman to be con-