Local Bodies at Variance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 May 1910, Page 4

Local Bodies at Variance.

A scandalous state of affairs wae alleged at fcho last meeting of the Dunedin Drainage Board. It is s*a.id that in Cumberland street, between St. Andrew street iind Stuart street, tho civic authorities havo earrio dout a piece of road formation in spite of the warning of tlie drainage engineer that it was the intention of the board to shortly proceed with a sewer in that street. Mr Slingor informed tho board yesterday that before the work commenced he rerbally notified the town clerk of tho board's intention. A few days later, noticing that tho corporation workmen were 'beginning work on the street he rang up tho town clerk, informing him of the work in progress, -and was tokl that the matter would be seen into at once. On the 6th instant—three days afterwards—when tho work was still being prosecuted, he wrote to itho town clerk ojn tho subject, but up to the present had received no reply. The work proceeded, expeditiously—9o loads of nioatl were delivered in one day and 60 loads on tho following dny — and it seemed to him that it wae rushed on for a purpose. Several members of tho board remarked that, without the engineers' explanation, tho public would have blamed tho board when the recently-formed road wae reopened, -when, as a matter of fact, the fault was not the 'board's. Tho action of tho drainage engineer in promptly bringing tho hoard's intentions before tho town clerk was aproved, and the matiler was roforred to the Works Committee.