FAULTY DRAINS
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Council Refuses to Connect State Houses
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WELLINGTON, Last Night. ; The methods of drainage adopted by the Government Housing Department for the Lower Hutt scheme came in for •strong criticism at a meeting of the Borough Council to-night, wben it was decided to protest t0 the Department and to refrain in the meantime from connecting Government houses to the borough rnain by the method prOposed. The system was stated to be contrarv • to the borough by-laws. The'Mayor, Mr. J. W, Andrews, said he had discussed the que3tion of the drainage of Government houses with the borough engineer, who had submitted an adverse report, and he had^ also been in touch with the contractor. • "I move," said the Mayor, "that we protest to the Department against the method adopted as it is contrary to good practice and detrimental to health; that we invoke the aid of the I Health Department, if necessary, and jtliat we connect none of the drains to jthe borough main until the outcome of . jthe protest is known." , [ | The motion .was' carried. /
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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