PUBLIC MEETING RE DRAINAGE.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 827, 15 February 1877, Page 3

PUBLIC MEETING RE DRAINAGE.

The following resolutions will be submitted at the public meeting this evening:— “That this meeting is emphatically of opinion that the solid sewage matter from the City of Christchurch should not be deposited in the Heathcote Estuary, nor in the rivers Avon or Heathcote.” “ That the proposal of the Drainage Board to carry out Mr Carruthers’ plans without first ascertaining the probable cost of the whole system, and without deciding (as the members of the Board now allege is the case) what is ultimately to be done with the sewage, is a very injudicious mode of proceeding to carry out works -which must necessarily involve the annual expenditure of enormous sums for interest and sinking funds on loans, and for general working expenses.” “That this meeting respectfully requests the Drainage Board to reconsider the whole question of the proposed works as compared with the ‘ dry system,’ and especially as to the entire cost of such works and the supply of water,' which is an absolute necessity for the efficient working of underground sewers.” “And this meeting is further of opinion that what is known as the dry system, if efficiently carried out, would answer all the necessities of Christchurch for some years to come ; at any rate until sufficient time had been given to the Drainage Board to prepare an entirely complete scheme, in all its branches, for the consideration of the ratepayers of the whole of the Christchurch drainage district. “ That a copy of the above resolution, signed by his Worship the Mayor on behalf of the meeting, be forwarded to the Drainage Board.”