HEALTH INQUIRY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21243, 14 October 1940, Page 6

HEALTH INQUIRY

BOROUGH SEWERAGE REQUISITION WANTED EVIDENCE FOR COMMITTEE

A committee of inquiry of the Health Board will sit in Hamilton this afternoon at the Borough Council Chambers to hear evidence from persons or organisations in regard to the provision of public conveniences in Hamilton and the extension of the borough’s drainage system. The inguiry is the result of the Hamilton Borough’s application to the Board of Health for a requisition in terms of Section 22 of the Health Act, 1920, to authorise it to proceed with the provision of public conveniences and extension of the drainage system. A poll to give the council authority to expend £6500 in the provision of publice conveniences and rest room and £IO,OOO on sewerage extensions was defeated on November 29, 1939. The Medical Officer of Health in Hamilton, Dr. C. B. Gilberd, recommends the Board of Health to require that the borough severs be extended into the closely settled portions of the Waikato andHWaipa Counties adjacent, as these areas are said to require urgently proper facilities for disposal of all househodj* waste. 7, The committee of inquiry comprises the Hon. J. Alexander, M.L.C. (chairman), Mr F. W. Mac Lean and Dr. T. R. Ritchie (representing the Director-General of Health). Ratepayers Against Loans Nearly 1300 ratepayers went to the polls on November 29 and by substantial majorities rejected proposals 'of the Hamilton Borough Council to raise loans amounting to £27,000. Three loan were placed before ratepayers. They comprised £10,500 for a civic purposes site in Garden Place, £IO,OOO for sewei drainage and £6500 for conveniences. For the civic purposes loan 225 ratepayers voted in favour of the proposal and 978 against, a majority of 753. For the conveniences loan, 536 ratepayers were in favour of it and 686 against it, majority 150. The loan for sewerage purposes was also rejected, 441 voting tor it and 775 against, a majority of 334. This morning the Committee of Inquiry, together with representatives of local bodies, made an inspection of the areas that would be affected by any requisition.