THE DESTRUCTOR PROPOSAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17479, 25 January 1919, Page 4

THE DESTRUCTOR PROPOSAL

Judging by the feeling manifested a^. the meeting o£ the ratepayers last evening } the Borough Council's proposs;l to raise a loan of £12,500 to purehaseulhe Alexander property will be re-jeo'sd. and that to raise £5,000 to establish a destructor will be carried. That "* as it should be. If a destructor 5s esijablished the toAvnspeople will have gor<& cans© for gratification. While we feel that the proposed, destructor is hardiy so big or c6mprehensive as it should be, we ai'e quite prepared to accept th_?. assurance of tlie Borough Engineer that the plant is suitable for the town's wants. A destructor is an absolute necessity. It should have been in wotging order for years pas*&, for ifa is noulting short of a ecandal that a town of almost 20,000 population should be "without a means of scientifically destroy..ing the garbage and offensive matter which are the natural result of life and industry. This subject suggests another of kindred nature which the town will have to deal TvitJbi in the near future. Thafc is the disposal of sewage. The time f.or discharging eewers into the river has : long gon© by. It is a yery big matt-er, but it will hav c to be taken in hand. That, and many oilier reforms, make it essential that the town should not embark on visionary speculations.