TAKAPUNA DRAINAGE
Sir,—l read with interest vour to. port of the 26th re the squabble bt tween the North Shore Mayors ovjfr the water supply. Bad though'this may be permit me to say as a recent visitor to Takapuna that this is nothing compared with the lack of drainage in that fair borough. In company with manr other city residents I decided to rent a house for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Having left it rather late-I could only secure a house about a n- ; ?| 9 from the Milford Beach, for which T was asked a pretty stiff rental.
Not wishing to disappoint my family I paid the price only to find when I i took possession that there was sewerage. Imagine my dismay—andT with three small children! On makine local inquiries 1 found that the whole of that particular road and, all surrounding districts, quite tliicfly p o p u . lated, were in the same deplorable state of barbarism.
What are our health authorities doing to permit the continuance of this state of affairs? For my own part I leffc in disgust before the completion of ib? expensive lease. The local residents tell me that they have agitated for redress for years without result, v Crrr- Visitor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23258, 30 January 1939, Page 12
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