TAMAKI DRAINAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20991, 30 September 1931, Page 10

TAMAKI DRAINAGE.

POLL OF RATEPAYERS. ' £50,000 LOAN PROPOSAL. A poll of ratepayers will be held today on tfye proposed loan of £50.000 for drainage work in the Tamaki district. The hours of polling "will be from nine o'clock this morning until seven o'clock this everting, numerous, booths being provided. The principal city booth will be at the Town Hall concert chamber. Tbe drainage proposal was outlined in a report of the city engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, last October. In addition to the Mission Bay area, from the residents of which tbe City Council received a petition, there were several other subdivided areas in the Tamaki district without drainage facilities, he said. They had not been reticulated from the drainage loan moneys by the old Tamaki Road Board, which bad raised a loan of £90,000, and, at the date of amalgamation with the city, had spent £67,000 in dealing with an area of 230 acres. The council had subsequently ' raised the balance of the loan and had spent £20,000 in providing facilities for an area of 240 acres. The engineer estimated that the cost or reticulating the remaining subdivided areas on the Tamaki watershed would be approximately £42,000. There would bo a few isolated houses which would not be dealt, with by the proposed sewers, but he considered the cost of extending branches to serve these premises would not. be justified in the present scheme. The areas included in the proposals ■were as follows Mission Bay, 116 acres; Kohimarama (three portions), Long Drive West, 133; St. Heliers Bay (13 porHions),/93; Glendowie Estate (part only), 45; Meadowbank Road junction (south), 8; total, 413j acres. . Onlv the portion of the Glendowie Estate/in the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board's district was proposed to be dealt with. The remainder, most of which must be drained toward the Tamaki River, should be considered by the board in connection with the proposed extension of its district.