DRAINAGE OF GERALDINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1145, 6 September 1883, Page 3

DRAINAGE OF GERALDINE.

’ TO THE EDITOR. , " J Sir,—l was very pleased to read your leading article v dn this aubjebt in your issue of the lat,, as- H your ideas throughout entirely coincide, vvith mine, and ! ":wjiat I have been advocating for the last afsN or seven'years.The, local authorities' have not'begun a moment too soon, as there haye been several cases; lately of typhoid fever- in the heart of the town. To any stranger riding through the place of a hot, sultry evening the smell is something awful. I know that-the medical officers have complained often enough and have predicted an epidemic breaking jontiinleas something fa shortly done. It- will be a grievous mistake taking the filth into the creek.’To' begin:with; anyone Laving: a section on, it,can, 1 believe,- stop the Road Board from polluting his land and Tendering it unhealthy. What-you suggest is just right. -Run the drainage into the river below.'the pound, k following .the street leading to the Scotch Church,-’ then: into a concrete tank- without any bottom so that the liquid matter could percolate through the sand,- People say; how are - the drains to bo flushed V Nothing, I think, is easier. Take the. Waihiiiomewhere below Mr McDonald’s, and Tun the water either in ap open drain,, or covered, ;as thought best, Mr Marchant, C.E., of Burke’s Pass, has designed an inexpensive plan, with, box so that . only a certain quantity of water can pass down; I feel sure if the Geraldine Road Board offered a premium of,' say fiftypounds,toT the best'plan of draining the town, including flushing the ’sewers , that there: wouldi be ; several . .sent jn, and, it .w ould be fifty pounds well spent. Hoping to see Geraldine well draifaed must be riiy excuse for Troubling, you with this, lßtxhr,|~]ram, etc., ■ v. C.G.Tripr, Orari Gorge] 4th Sepl,