NO SEWER SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 4

NO SEWER SERVICE

COMPLAINT BY RESIDENTS

POSITION.IN KIO IJOAD

About ;i dozen residents o£ or near Kio road, Hataitai, waited on the 'Works Committee o£ the City Council yesterday, asking that immediate attention should be given to the matter of providing sewerage in that street. The speakers were Messrs. H. R. Searlc, E. 13. Ilarman, and F. L. Thompson, of the Hataitai Municipal Electors' Association. It was stated by Councillor 11. A. Huggins that Kio road was less; than a mile and a half-from'Courtenay place, yet had no sanitary service. Mr. Searle said that the question of providing sewerage in the street had been discussed by the Hataitai'Land Company and ■ the then-actiug City Engineer, Mr, Morice, in ''1924. There had been prospects in 1928 that a sewer would be laid, but the work had not been done, and the Land Company had received no satisfactory reply to its requests. Twentyeight sections, on which sis houses had been built, were affected, and there were other owners1 who would not build until the work had been done. The laying of the sewer would be suitable work for the unemployed. .'. ■'-. . -~':' The danger to the health of the children was causing some concern, continued Mr. Searle, and the matter had been placed before the Health Department. It was estimated that the cost of a sewer would be £2600, which was a small insurance for the health of the community. Unless the City Council took action they would Have to go to the Health Department and ask' for an order. Mr. Harman said that the school was not far away from Kio road, and emphasised the danger to children. If the council had been justified iii spending £4000 on a golf house at Ber•hampore and £1600 on a bear pit at the Zoo, said Mr. Thompson, surely it could spend £2600 in the interests of public health. Councillor Meadowcroft said that, the council received a: return from the golf house. Councillor R. Scmple, M.P.: "What do you get from the bear?" The chairman of the committee (Councillor R. A. Wright, M.P.) agreed with Mr. Thompson that Hataitai had not had so much spent on it as other suburbs. The I committee recognised, the necessity of the. I work, and would make a recommendation to. the:council. .. . .