NAPIER MUNICIPAL SERVICES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1931, Page 2

NAPIER MUNICIPAL SERVICES

COST OF RESTORATION. NAPIER, February 25. Finance amounting to approximately £280,000 will be needed to carry on the municipal activities of Napier and restore conditions as they existed before the earthquake. The sum of £170,000 was mentioned by the Mayor (Air J. Vigor Brown), speaking at a meeting of the City Council, as the loss which the council had suffered as a body. An estimate of £161,000 was made by Mr J. S. Langford Deem, engineer to the Wanganui City Council, who has been appointed consulting drainage engineer to the Napier City Council, as being the sum necessary to restore all the municipal services that were ui operation in Napier before the earthquake. This sum provides for the 10 per cent, allowed for the cost of raising and administering a loan. It is considered that to continue the ordinary operations and activities of the council, quite apart from restoration, the sum of £120,000 would be needed bringing the total amount required to £280,000, Current extraordinary expenses are calculated to involve £2OO a week. Application was to have been made to j the Government for financial (assistance, but this was deferred owing to the receipt of a telegram from the ■ Prime Minister (the Rt, Hon. G. W. i Forbes) stating that the Public Works Department would undertake part of the reconditioning work Jn private fiomeg, WATER SUPPLY, SERVICE IN FORTY STREETS. NAPIER, February 25. Water and sewerage connections, are now complete to dwellings in about forty of Napier’s streets. The control committee therefore urges refugees to make application for an occupation permit.