Finance for sewerage bid is opposed

Taupo Times, Volume 23, Issue 55, 11 July 1974, Page 3

Finance for sewerage bid is opposed

The Minister of Local Government, Mr May, does not support Taupo County Council moves to get subdividers to finance .sewerage reticulation in holiday areas. At last year's counties' qonference, a Taupo remit was passed calling for contributions from subdividers to be held in a trust fund for future provision of A sewerage reticulation.

This would be similar to the present reserve fund- ^ Landowners subdividing, in _ holiday areas where therp was no sewerage system would be required to pay into a fund for a future scheme. At present, subdividers can only be required to contribute to a scheme which will be in operation within three years. Councillors were told this week that the Minister considered adequate legislative powers already existed for councils to require subdividers to contribute toward sewerage schemes. Although he agreed that the present three year provisions limited the extent to which legislation could be used, Mr May said these were being reviewed in conjunction with the second stage of the Local Government Bill. The county chairman, Mr J. M. Black, said the council would now have to "keep its ear to the

ground" and present submissions later. y Mr Black this week criti^fcised delegates to the counties' conference who failed to study remits from other areas. "The reaction our remit received showed me that people go to conference just to push their own particular barrow. They are not interested in things of much wider implication," he said. "Many delegates do not look at the agenda. Ones who should be interested do not study the remits from other areas," Although the conference passed the Taupo remit last year, it met tough opposition from Hutt