WHATAUPOKO SEWERAGE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 2

WHATAUPOKO SEWERAGE.

k WILL IT PROCEEfr ?

It was freely stated in town, last evehJ- ' ing that the Borough Council "bad : de- 7 cided to close down on , all . sewerage work, and, in fact, one councillor-is-re^-ported to Ihave advised ,the .Council close its doors for three months-~or unj^n the new Eingineer is appointed. -_'■_ 7, v Questioned on the subject to-day, ■•wie.:./. Ma^or, Mr J. R. Kkik, said, they xlffl not want to close dowp. jf it could,- bd avoided, but the position; was they jha.<_l> no engineer, arid they -were- met witlu engineering-difficulties. True/ theyvhaS on .t-iesu* staff. .good men.-ahd in view. ek the, fact ' th^f /beiofe,.tii[e kte : "Eta#ii6e_*fer* services \ wete' dispeiised. .'wilh' „hb7' (the* . Mayor) t had. given a r V^^^AvY^io^}^ tliat sthe >Wliata.upol-^>e^r^'"woul^W' y carried over the bridge now Deirifr erejitav ed at the earliest. momje»t,.aftd,.t)&|it;tß|2 : Point, Whataupoko, .^ould be sewe'reaPi' also, he was haturaUy^an-tions trat this work, .should -be completed. . On the ptherr .., hand, th^re,.- jva-s .aT^sfeVjn, -itndjiHa^gksuch a. work: without Vajv,^P^irikmmg head, and this had to. l)e fi_kri__ Into co% sideration ; * he was. -proposing,, to SpßAfc meeting; of the CouncJl- m.!.c<jTOn^it*e^wj> ; L\ discuss tM position; -with othe?mai|ijr^.; this week7 : The men "working on *eji_e_*f>; ; age; 'wori_. at i&e' West "EM were teptorted? to be an exceJflentTg^gjya-iid, If pos.-iblejr., it would be '.'wise fo'k&ep fch^fia goi-_|l*A_^a^ , keep tnem together. ' 'As regards" the Council's supervision of r.the erection- of--the Waimata, bridge,* this was being, done, v . by Mr. J. Somervell, an old servant 6t ' the Council, in* whom they all had vconfiVr dtence. . . . . .'• The 1 question of proceeding with, -the? ? linking-up and completion, of the Wh%rr taupoko sewerage service is a matter or considerable importance ,to the resident* of that locality* . many. of. .whom,, on t}ie strength of the Council's; assurances, Have gone to much expense in providing house. . installations,, ;, - ;- * ;"_. ;