Defeat Of Loan Proposals Affects Water Main

Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1949, Page 4

Defeat Of Loan Proposals Affects Water Main

"When^ the burgesses turned down our proposed o waterworks loan they cramped our style. We had quite a good programme arranged if we had been allowed to implement it." The Mayor, Mr.' H. B. Burdekin, made this comment at the Levin Borough Council's monthly meeting when replying to cri'Licism by Cr. A. W. Parton of the size of the new water mains which had replaced the two-inch ones in Bartholomew Road. Cr. Parton said it was a grave fnistake to replace them with fourinch niains, stating that six-inch pipes were an absolute necessity in this part of the borough, where 12 new services had already been conhected to it. Cr. W. Telford said the four-inch main had been put there because no six-inch pipes were available or likely to become available for some time. The change over in Bartholomew Road had been an urgent requirement. They had been installed temporarily * and at' least were a great improvement on the preyious two-inch mainS. There was not sufflcient finance available, Cr. Telford added, for the purchase of many six-inch mains and the fourinch ohes were on the spot. After commenting that this was one of the effects of the loan being turned down, Mr. Burdekin said that water pipes ran into foig money. f