SEWERAGE CONNECTIONS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17570, 8 March 1929, Page 4

SEWERAGE CONNECTIONS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Why is the Borough Council going to prosecute people for not having connected up with the sewer, when, in some instances, they have not complied with the law themselves? In reading leaflet No. 1, we see this: “Whether you vote for it or the Health Department compels the Council to instal, it must be done.” Now, what is the Health Department doing, as it is not done? Many feet above the receiving tank there are two places practically surrounded by the main sewer that cannot be connected up, and have to be exempt from paying interest on the loan. Will the Borough engineer tell us why those two places were left out? It is a queer thing that our Borough Council can find money (£1200) /for Waiomo when they cannot complete the main sewers on Block 27. Thanking you for your valuable space.—l am, etc., “WORRIED RATEPAYER.”

[The above was submitted to the Borough engineer, who gtates that all Borough properties are now connected with the sewer, except the Baths cottage, which no sewer passes. 1 The two places mentioned in our correspondent’s letter were in such positions that without 1 the expenditure of much money it was found impossible to take a sewer connection to them and the undertaking would have run into hundreds of pounds. Mill Street is not connected yet, as the interest on the money expended would have been higher than the cost of collection is known as the free service.—Ed., Star.]