HAMILTON PROGRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 280, 16 February 1928, Page 12

HAMILTON PROGRESS

BIG WORK DONE A FINE RECORD (From Our Oun Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Receiving its greatest impetus, and springing up rapidly at a period when the municipal services were unable to keep pace with its growth, Hamilton lagged behind in the provision of adequate public facilities, and it was not until 1920 or 1921 that those services began to operate for the benefit of ratepayers. fTTHIS was a statement made by Mr. -*• K. Worley, borough engineer, in an address to the Hamilton Rotary Club yesterday. A capital expenditure of £440.000 had been made in the last septennial period on permanent improvements, but a good deal yet remained to be done. The completed sewer drainage cost £160.000, and Hamilton was in the enviable if not unapproached i>osition of having 95 per cent, of tltg town’s buildings connected with the system. The provision of standard cesspits and the piping-off of the storm water cost £ 55.000. No other town in New Zealand could claim to have fewer open storm-water drains. Another drainage work of considerable note was the construction of the trade effluent sever, to remove impurities from the Waitiwhiriwhiri Stream, taking the discharge from the trading concerns and the borough septic tank-* in the vicinity. Hamilton had now close on 30 miles of paved streets, nor full width certainly, but sufficient to meet traffic requirements. The roading programme was by no means completed. but the borough is iii a posi tion to carry out subsidiary road activities, cognisant of the fact that the back of he work has been broken. The outstanding problem confronting Hamilton at present was the provision of a better water supply. Owing partly to the installation of the sewage and flushing system, and partly to the expansion of industrial activities, the daily consumption was thrice what it was six years ago. The maximum draw-off on Tuesday was 1,250.00‘i gallons. Hamilton paid insurance premium.totalling £25,000 yearly. and this amount would be reduced to £ 16,00 a if the town were put on the “t‘" classification by a better water supply.