WASTAGE OF WATER
TIME OF ECONOMY
GUTTERS OF WHAKATANE
Councillor C. G. Caisley, at the Borough Council meeting on Monday, asked the Mayor why the water which has run down the gutters of the Strand for so long should so suddenly be cut off.
| The Mayor answered: I have considered the question and it all comes to costs. There is a shortage of water and at the present time we can't afford a new supply. In other towns, much bigger than ours, they don't have water running down the gutters. If it is considered that a nuisance is created with the dust, the shopkeepers are partly to blame because they sweep their rubbish out into the gutters and if a wind springs up there is dust whether water is running down the gutters or not. The question could not be very serious because few people had noticed that the w r ater had been cut off.
Cr Shapley: Water costs are rising and it is a wastage to have Avater running down the drains. In other towns with a bigger population you never find the water running down gutters unless there is an abundance and the town does not have to rely on pumping it's supply. I would suggest that it would be a better idea to periodically wash the streets down with a hose.
Continuing, Cr Shapley said: Water only wets six inches on each side of the gutter. There is the same amount of traffic in Commerce Street but dust is not a nuisance there. Cr Canning agreed that water costs have been out „of proportion. "Take the Thames," he said The Mayor: They're bankrupt. I think the idea of hosing is stupid. Cr Canning thought it would be better to stop the flow of water down the gutters for a time and then clean the drains with a good pressure from an inch pipe.
Cr Armstrong- There is one remark of the Mayor's that I would like to contest and that is his reference to the shopkeepers sweeping their rubbish into the gutters. They don't. They sweep it on to the footpaths in an endeavour to keep the place clean and in the hope that the Borough Council will do something about it. ' -
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 88, 15 November 1939, Page 4
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