OBJECTIONABLE DEPOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15504, 10 January 1914, Page 8

OBJECTIONABLE DEPOT.

SUCCESSFUL PROTEST.

ANOTHER SITE TO BE CHOSEN.

A further deputation from Point Chevalier waited upon Dr. Valintine (Chief Health Officer) and Dr. Makgill (district health officer) to urge that the permission to establish the sanitary depot in the district should be withdrawn at once.

Mr. T. Dignan (acting-chairman to the Point Chevalier Road Board) was the spokesman for the deputation, and he put forward several arguments against the establishment of the depot in the district. He urged that the site was too small for the requirements of the several outside districts concerned, and expressed the opinion that each district should have a separate depot unless arrangements could be made to secure a large area for the purpose. l

The deputation was accorded a sympathetic hearing by the health officers, and after a general discussion Dr. Valintine intimated that the Department would undertake that the use of the new depot would be discontinued almost immediately and an effort made to secure another depot, outside the district within a week. In the meantime the deputation agreed that the residents would take no further action. The petition which lias been circulated among the Point Chevalier residents, protesting against the establishment of the sanitary depot, has been very largely signed. In view of the assurance of the Chief Health Officer, however, there will probably be no necessity to carry the petition further. * r