Township Sanitation.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 111, 30 November 1908, Page 5

Township Sanitation.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir. —The importance of this question has apparently taken hold of _ our townspeople, judging by the rrticles that have recently appeared in you r columns, and the wants of our town in a general aspect must materially suffer in not having a local body to control and regulate the requirements affecting ourselves—one of which is the healthy conditions governing our domestic and public ilfe, which is only secured by a proper and complete system of sanitation. To secure the advantages of such a system it is necessary to appoint a Town Board. Your correspondent, "Pro Bono Publico," has already advocated such a body being formed, and [the time is not far distant when a Town Board will become absolutely necessary if the progress of the district is not to be retarded. In your last issue Mr Tompkins apparently recognises the disadvantages the town is now labouring under, and suggests the formation of a Chamber of Commerce. ' "Now, Sir, while not wishing to throw cold water on his suggestions, I respectfully point out that as an administrative body, a Chamber of Commerce would absolutely fail to meet the reqiurements of our position. What is required at the present moment is consideration of pressing needs and how to meet them in view of our future progress, and the demands of a population considerably larger than our number today. " The question of ro*ad maintenance, lighting, anj water supply are needs that must also claim attention, and to carry out administrative works, the construction of a Town Board is one of the controlling bodies recognised by parliament. Already Te Kuiti has been gazetted as a Native Township, and the standing of the town in connection with the County Council is really a legal question. What is rqeuired at this moment isjhe earnest attention of our public-spirited

men to r_ush along the question of a Town Board, and with the experience gathered from other places Te Kuiti has every natural advantage to assist herself to become, in more than name, the leading town of the King Country. —I am, etc., TOWNSMAN.