DRAINAGE PROBLEMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9170, 19 August 1908, Page 4

DRAINAGE PROBLEMS.

The Council baa already found itself confronted with a complication as a result of the rejection of the drainage loan. Last night it had to grant, on principle, an application to pu*; in a septic tank at a residence in the Jean's estate, but it decided that in future no more cf these tanks would be sanctioned in the Borough Several Councillor.? displayed a certain feeling of piquq at ths loan being rejected, and possibly allowed their disappointment to obscure their judgment to some extent. The Council has already allowed a number of septic tank installations within the Borough, even the Health Department stepping in on one occasion in favour of that system. But there are septic tanks, and there 1 are septic traps, and it is the latter horror that the Cou'ncil should set its face against. Because the ratepayers have said they do not want a modern and reliable gravitation system with a tank far removed fi\>m the Borough, it does net follow that the Council should arbitrarily oppose the erec tion of a really serviceable and sanitary tank, aM by so doing they condemn their own system. What is good enough for the Hospital should suffice for a private house, and if a resident is prepared to expend often more on a septic tank

than it would coat to connect with the drainage if such could be done, the Council should not stand in his way. There are, it is true, very few genuine private septic tanks in the Borough, the maturity of the tanks being mere holes dug in the ground, and covered with boards, and over which the flies and microbes of contagion hold daily and nightly revel, winter and summer.