HELENSVILLE DOMAIN BOARD.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 27 April 1916, Page 3

HELENSVILLE DOMAIN BOARD.

TO THE EDITQR . JSlR^—I have-xead -with-some-iafcereat-the-report of the proceedings of Helensville Domain Board meeting on, April 13th. You :report, -that^/it•■was (;Unanimously decided •■•to make rep're'seritatibn to the Government as to the opposition being •carried on the; ■ §p;i-ii>gs, fand ||p^ advise'the G-overmen'fto'take over' the property junder the Public Works Act. Now, I think it would be more wise on the^part qf. thf-»Board if they had first corisider'ed'tlVenvown actions in courting the opposition. In the first^place^hJß boarding-houses which .' wer-e. already-: established,, .and are catering for i thepublic Springs, made application tb w l>ef allowed to connect thefr. drainage, -with^ the Domain sewer drain, ' but 'were refused; ] Shortly Uftfer, "'th'e-dwner of Hinernoa-Souse (ithat is now complained of) made application to .connect: with; the'; Domain, sewer, and was granted ...permission to.'do) soy ~tfie .exQSsfeibeingithat they, the Board, would get the surplus jhpfc'waier from JHinqmq^is^^g.^while'a.t-, the same time the Board had a good flow of their-• own \irurinirig to: waste, and further:flows could -be,'procured at a : small cost. It is ,alsp worthy of mention that one of the members of ,the Domain Board j^s'/ the builder; ,qf> Hineihoa House, and also had a hand' in connecting'the sewer drahv-wtth the pewbr^t v^LtKoughihe^iwaiij^onpi >of 'i the objectors to the other houses being connected. Within the last two years -PaTakar^iitrasnß-lißS"beßn~btiitt-r'SpT>i'Og="> side House and Hot Springs House have both been enlarged to double their i: original, capapity (all,p.rivate.ente.rpri^e), • while i we: find Hhat the public Springs: are riot open before 7 aum.,' and' no tickets ; sold.after^i-8.3P p.ro;-,,«'W.hile at HinemOaj JKpuse visjtqrs can. loathe from 6 a.m. to;j 10 p.m, Yet this' lovely-do-nothing-:' Board__sleep_s_while Hinemoa takes the cash. —I am, etc., U,.;K,, . ,--;4,!'-"i HPT SpBISGSf ;