TURUA TOWN DRAINAGE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4660, 11 February 1924, Page 2

TURUA TOWN DRAINAGE.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD.

At the special meeting of the Hauraki Drainage Board held on Friday evening Mr A. P. Gardiner, representing the Turua Town Board, attended and asked that a conference be arranged between the two bodies to discuss a working arrangement.

rhe chairman .said that Mr Mules represented the town area, and would know the town board’s requirements. The drainage board would discuss the master and inform the town board later.

The Chairman said that from the Press reports the town board was inclined to criticise the board. The town board would not define what it desired to discuss.

Mr Baker said that mention had boon made at a meeting of ratepayers of filling in the drain along Hauraki Road.

Mr Mules said that eventually the town board would have to take over the control of the town area. The drainage board could not undertake all the work necessary in the town, and the town board would find that It could not do the work out of rates.

Mr Heappy pointed out that th? town board could only be given control of the township drains. The drainage board would have to control its outlets. There would then be trouble regarding the rating. It might he overcome by handing over part of the rates collected in the area. It would have been a matter of courtesv for the town board to have stated what it desired to confer upon. Mr Baker contended that it was not the function of the drainage board to provide a sewerage system for the town. This was what was desired oy the town dwellers, and was very nbcessary. The drainage board could not permit household drainage to be put into open drains.

It was decided that the conference be hold.