MARTON BOROUGH £l000 LOAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11613, 12 August 1918, Page 8

MARTON BOROUGH £looo LOAN.

To The Editor. Sir, —Until latterly it has been necessary on a proposal to raise a loan to call a meeting to lay the matter before the ratepayers. It is not so in this case, but it seems desirable to give some particulars, hence this letter. The loan is for £SOO for sewerage extension, and £SOO for water works purposes. As to the former, when, some four years since, Mr F. K. H.- Brice cut up the land in Follett Street extension he had to approach the then Council as to its requirementss re street and footpath formation. In addition to these requirement tha Council imposed the laying of sewer main, hut could not give an outlet into the Broadway main because of too high a level. So the Council undertook to provide another outlet. So a further main has to be put in. It starts from the new building sites and crossing Lower High Street and the school grounds, etc., comes out just below tlie gasworks. The work has according to the Council’s agreement with Mr Brice, to he done within about IS months from now. Otherwise the Council will have to put in the mains along the newly formed streets, also at a cost of some fnrtner hundreds of pounds. I may point cut that the agreement with Mr Brice cannot, • of course, be treated as a “scrap of piper.” That Mr Biice’s enterprise cannot be disregarded. That the ratepayers should support an improvement. That the proposed main will benefit Lower Pligh Street, and allow of better drainage at our school and provide an outlet for sewerage for places between Broadway and the Tutaenui, which will certainly be erected in the course of a few years. It may be thought by some that the owners of tha new sites should bear the expense, but these sites are already very heavily raced for sewerage purposes, ami double rates could not with any lairimss be imposed. I trust voters will not omit to vote for the proposal. I do not see how anyone can honestly vote against it. As regards the £SOO for water works purposes. The work is being done [after the advice of two reliably and experienced engineers and prolonged consideracioirby well known councillors. And there can he no doubt that if we want to save ourselves auolher costly disaster with the dam, and [to better ensure ourselves against a shortage of water again next summer, the work should be proceeded with without further delay. I may remind the people of Marton that during all last summer tne Council dared not allow more than 15 or 16 feet of water in the reservoir, whereas if this work is carried out the reservoir can be filled and more than double the quantity stored. —I am etc., F. O. WILSON, . Mayor.