RUBBISH COLLECTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 65, 16 April 1943, Page 5

RUBBISH COLLECTION

BOROUGH SERVICE AGAIN

♦COUNCIL'S LONG DISCUSSION

The sequel to the recent move by the Chamber of Commerce to emphasise the urgent need 1 for the initiation of a regular weekly rubbish collection in the Borough, was a lengthy discussion by the Borough Council last Monday evening, when the whole matter was referred back .once again to the Works Committee for further consideration. The Wcwks Committee which had considered an oJTev from the sani"tary contractor to perform the service at £30 per month, had also received a letter from the Medical * Officer of Health urging that a weekly refuse collection be made ant* had finally considered an alternative scheme put forward by the 1 Borough Foreman, put forward the following facts in order to assist ' the Council to a decision. v A new vehicle would be required to be purchased at a cost say of £600. Payment to- • contractor would be £32 monthly, and the additional cost of refuse disposal would amount to £27 10s monthly. Total estimated cost £714 per annum. Assuming 500 premises to be -charged for the service at £1 each receipts would amount to £500 per annum leaving an annual deficiency of £214 to be rmet from the Council's general rate. Occupiers would 1 be re- , •quired to supply garbage cans to Council"s specification. The Service to properties of */2 .Ben* =and over should not be compul ' sory although the service would' be available if desired. It was stated that Messrs Cutjers Hardware ■ Ltd. had quotations for garbage tins in 22 W.G.. at £1 0s Od f.o.r. Auckland. It had also been ascertained that it was •customary for occupiers to' supply the receptacles and not. the local authority. The foreman engineer had further reported that the cost -of an incinerator was estimated at 3488. Mayor States Position The Mayor said that the offer pf Mr Honeycombe's had been dropped an favour of the foreman's scheme, which incidentally was almost the same in cost.. It would mean that -for a weekly collection a man would have to be employed almost full time on the rubbish dump using the Bradford system by covering ■with, spoil to destroy vermin. In the ■ event of a new vehicle being purp -chased it would cost at least £60(0,, if not more, and £240 would have to be found out of. general rates. ' The Council favoured the service, 'but it was a matter of finance. Cr Shapley" agreed that like.everything else such a service was going to cost money. In the past lie had been a keen supporter of .3 weekly service, but he thought that :at the present time the position could be. increasing the present quarterly collection to a monithly one. • Cr Good observed that this would merely be aggravating the position -as perishable rubbish would not keep that#long and the present collection was merely for non-per-ishable rubbish. It would either have to be a weekly collection or not at all. Cr Mulliolland: I'd like to see the 1 matter gone into a little further. Cr Shapley: Its all very well for Cutlers Hardware to say that they can get the tins. At the present time you can't. Its impossible and 1 particularly the 22 inch guage. Every piece of that metal is required for essential purposes and it won't "be released for. anything else, -even if it was in the country. The Mayor said he would like the whole matter deferred a little, long- • er to enable the Council to go more fully into the figures. Cr Armstrong suggested a decision by poll. The matter was finally closed by • a motion which read, that enquiries be made with reference to the possibility of " procuring suitable receptacles, and the purchase of a truck and that in the meantime the Works Committee; go further into the matter.