THE DRAINAGE OF GERALDINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1148, 13 September 1883, Page 3

THE DRAINAGE OF GERALDINE.

XO THE EDITOB. Mister Hbditor. During last month I've read several letters, and one leading article in your valuable paper upon the Drainage of Geraldine, suggesting different modes of carrying out these works, and thinks I to raysen : I shall be pjoing to Geraldine on Saturday, I'll take a good look at the place : and see if I couldn't suggest sumraat—not as I think Road Board would take any notice of a country chap, but I suppose I can have my say as well as other people. One gentleman suggests Road Board should offer fifty pounds for best plan and says it would be money well spent, I've no doubt it would, if town was twenty times as big as it is and ( t there - were difficulties to be got over—but when it is considered that Geraldine is a very small town and no difficulties to contend with I for one thinks it would be fifty pounds thrown away. A Mr Drainpipe sajs that your leading article of first September, where you suggest certain things is nothing new to Road Board for they had thought about the very same thing. So when I got into Geraldine on Saturday I seed some drainpipes laid down one street "going apast a blacksmith's shop into a iiiMtofl! gully, and says [to mysen : 1 f! '^h6ught'Rda i d Board plan was to take ' "drain'down ; main street; past pound and

leading into river bed, but thinks I either Mr Drainpipe is wrong or Road Board is wrong, and while I'm taking stock some fellow comes up and says, ' Why Road Board at one time intended to drain Taylor's and Helloway's filth into that gully yonder, but last Board day somebody put a letter in paper asking Road Board a few questions about the matter and they appear to have altered their minds, and are going to take it in another direction, but don't exactly know which.' Says, Ito mysen after this fellow was gone, I'll gi'e 'em a bit of advice if they take it, and that is to put down a big pipe or concrete culvert in centre ot main street from Taylor's Publichouse to Bowden's, then turn down street in the form of a T leading from Rubin Jonson's place with a gentle fall into riverbed past Denune's stables, empty in riverbed, and place a stench trap at edge of river bank and use some disinfectant whenever required; have proper junktion pipes to lead from people's houses to main pipe and for Mister Taylor and Holloway and others to pay for cost of connecting with main sewer, and for Road Boad to put main pipes in, and I am of opinion this would be all that would be required for a number of years, for I have never heerd anybody complain of any nuisance only at back of Taylor's and Holloway's place, and if Road Board carry out my suggestion I think us country \ folks would be satisfied and compel those parties who have caused any nuisance in the past to rpmove it or introduce them to the new Magistrate. You must understand me, Mr Heditor, I don't think time 'as arrived to carry out a general drainage scheme for Geraldine, but at same-time would hint that if Road Board should adopt a country chap's suggestion, that what is done should form part of, and what would fit into, a general scheme when such was required, and turn one or more of the drains into the sewer that come down from the bush and the sewer will be flushed as often as lequired. And the cost of my suggestion will be very fairly borne by the Board and the inhabitants, if each individual pays for connecting with main sewer. As to cost, the Board will have to provide say about eight chains of 18in pipes and stench trap, and this will do away with Taylor's agitation and the nuisance to

G. Klarinobold. Stragglers' Flat, 10th Sept., 1883.