STREET SURFACES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 15

STREET SURFACES.

DISTURBANCE BY SEWERS. The City Council and Drainage Board are at variance regarding a proposal bv the former to promote legislation materially affectum the Board's powers with reference to sewer connexion by householders. The Town Clerk advised that the following resolution had been forwarded to the secretary of the Municipal Association for consideration at its next conference: — . . "That Section 224 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, be amended to provide that in the construction _ or sewers and drains where connexions have to be made to premises, it be made mandatory for such connexions to be executed simultaneously with the construction of such sewers or drains in order to avoid the heavy expense of two separate reinstatements of the highway concerned; the cost of such connexion which need be laid to tho block alignment only for the time being in each respective case to be charged to and recoverable from the owner or occupier of such premises." The Council would be glad if the Board would favourably consider the auestion of taking ste ; to have the Christchurch District Drainage Act amended in a similar manner. The chairman, Mr H. J. Otley, said that as far as the houses that were alreadv in existence were concerned, something might he done. All people were not in a position financially to make a simultaneous connexion, and it would cost them more to do the job in two parts. The Board would not be able to find the money. It was decided to advise the Council that the Board could not support the proposal, and would take the necessary s f P r><; trv onpose it. Mr H. (i. Livingstone remarked that Parliament was scarcely likely to faro'" *• such a proposal. The chairman: Ton don't know. It does some uecnlinr thincs sometimes.