A Drainage System.
Whakatane is probably the only Lorough of its size in New Zealand without a municipal drainage system, the result probably of overrapid growth from village status. That it needs such a system is the opinion of nearly every resident, an opinion shared probably by the Borough Councillors who have not been able to provide it. The cost of such a system, at today’s prices, would be frightening. It is little wonder that successive Councils have been unable to do anything about it.
But come it must, sooner or later, most people consider. And the sooner it comes —for the town is growing—the lower the cost will be. To put off the evil day for this and other amenities, it is thought, will result in this town becoming one of the heaviest rated in New Zealand.
No past Council can really be blamed for this lack of a sewerage system but the writer would hate to be in the place of the Council which eventually asks .for a loan to proceed. Every householder with his own septic tank will be annoyed and every ratepayer will be growling.
Anyway, it will be a good question to put to prospective Councillors in November. “Do you want a sewerage system in the town?”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 1, 27 September 1950, Page 5
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212A Drainage System. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 1, 27 September 1950, Page 5
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