RUBBISH COLLECTION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 12

RUBBISH COLLECTION

SYSTEM UNALTERED COST UNDER 3D A TIN No alteration is to be made in the method of rubbish and nightsoil collection in the Gisborne Borough, according to a decision reached at the Borough (Council meeting last night. The borough engineer, Mr. E. R. Thomas, reported that the annual cost of nightsoil collection was £lOl3 Os lOd and rubbish £1930 2s Id.

Rubbish pans lifted totalled 199,108 at 2.83 d per pan, and the number of cubic yards of rubbish was 4888, costing 7s lid per cubic yard. Nightsoil pans lifted totalled 28,340, equalling a cost of 8.59 d per pan.

“Prior to 1925,” the report added, “this work was partly carried out by contract, tenders being called for the supply of all labour in connection with the collection and disposal of both rubbish and nightsoil, the council supplying all plant and materials, including horse feed. “From correspondence between the council and the contractor, it is evident that the system did not prove satisfactory, as apart from continual complaints from residents about noncollecl'ion, me council’s plant was not kept in good order, and for these reasons the contract system was terminated in March, 1925. "I fail to see that any great saving can be made by reverting to the contract system as the existing 40hour working week and wages as set out in the agreement under which the council is now operating would be binding on any contractor. “The only means in my opinion of carrying out this work at a lesser cost is by adopting the practice of making residents place rubbish receptacles on the roadside on days of collection.

"This would considerably speed up collection, but would prove a hardship on elderly residents as well as those living some distance away from public thoroughfares.” The deputy Mayor, Cr. 11. Holmes, said that the only possible saving that might be effected would be in insisting on householders depositing their bins on the footpath, and that might be more trouble than what it was worth, for many tins might be knocked over.

Cr. D. S. Thompson said that many of the rubbish tins were not fit to display in the streets. Cr. .1. 11. Hall said that the cost of rubbish collection was reasonable. No action was taken.