CONNECTION TO THE NEW SEWERS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 9

CONNECTION TO THE NEW SEWERS

MANY STREETS NOW COMPLETED IN SPREYDON. Fewer than a hundred properties in the portions of Spreydon that have been reticulated with the new sewers have still to be connected, and the Drainage Board is concentrating on getting the work pushed ahead as expeditiously as possible. Since the completion of the new sewers the board has issued a total of 1143 notices to property owners requiring them to have their premises connected ; most of these notices have been issued in Spreydon. Up to last Thursday, a total of 1002 persons had complied with the notices, leaving a balance of 141. Final notices w r ere sent out to 330 persons and 277, or 84 per cent, were complied with. There are now sixty-six streets wholly completed, thirty-four with one connection still to be made, twelve with two, four with three, four with five, three with six, three with seven to eight, and only one with over ten connections still to be made. Notices were served in 127 streets. On December 1 there were 8182 houses connected to the new sewers, and 14,590 to the old sewers, a totai of 22,772. The .sum of £104,993 2s 9d, representing 2567 separate loans, has been advanced to property-owners by the board to enable them to finance connections to the new sewers. The number of applications received totals 2771, representing a sum of over £120,000. Several applications have been declined for various reasons, the chief of which has been that the ownership of the properties has not been correctly stated.