SOME OTAKI DRAINS

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11654, 19 October 1923, Page 7

SOME OTAKI DRAINS

‘NOTHING BUT NIGHTMARES.” Cvl'inie*/’ Dtati Ccrrespandent.) Messrs BoJton-, B+Hs, Buick, anu Tew < wuitcj on tlw? Otaki Borough Counjul; when, the former made reference to the main drains on the Mission property. Tasman road. He stated that they had never been cleaned properly. mid that one landowner would [dean KiV 6ne~/fioiitli. qrJDanother at a later date. ' Cleaning: in “dribe and wng~ no - piwtt: and Tt~~had been .decided to ask the Tf> take ; mivtttr in hand.; ;md r <?)ean ; the •- drtuni twice a ye&iv stated that; Several were concerned, and as they f>a4d. roughly. l->Ct) a year in rates they thought,.they, tion. ’ He thotight *tfie cost of*'keeping the drain clear wTruldTOStr about £3O a year, while at present, on account- of water. were"uhabfeUT'dfr'ttuppmg; till about December. Last t-eason he -had attempted to cultivate eight acres a ground tne ventitrc proved a dead loas. ,/They to lose a similar amount. 1% prop# weic needed settlers had to from outeide, and also put away tneir cattle for grazing pprpdsea, which was not a paying proposition. The lent. afc present wa*? over £3 nere, und this* w-af a -aorious tihirig to a _ also, drew attention to the, fact that the council's water went down TewV nounclhry to tho Mission property, and tliis did not'improve matters/ iHo suggested tlvat the water be carrjea « far as the concrete bridge. i>th*i*s intake-in and after & lengthy diseus&ion-it was eventitelly decided to Jay the f4<d* Wore the municipal Anhcitof «nd.^listadvice.