A SIGH FOR DRAINAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9152, 27 July 1908, Page 4

A SIGH FOR DRAINAGE.

"I would willingly pay £5 a year to have drainage laid on to my house," wa3 the dolefully expressed wish recently of a Masterton resident who lives in the undrained area He pointed as he spoke to an open drain running from near his back door ( to a cess-pit at the rear of the yard, into which the sink-drainage had to be emptied. "We have to exercise the utmost care as things are, and even then we somehow do not feel that we are safe from the übiquitous microbe," he commented, "and it is not surprising that outbreaks of scarlet fever are occasioned, as I am sure everyone does not take the care in sanitary matters they should do." It certainly does seem hard that in a street like Cornwall street, with its array of modern villas, which would grace any town in the Dominion, and in Worksop road, too, there are many houses rot able to be connected with the drainage system. Kuripuni, of course, in itself supplies the answer to the question of t whether the present scheme ot sewerage is sufficient or not, and if it is left to the ratepayers in the undrained area to sanction or reject the poll proposed to be taken by the Council for drainage extension, there is little doubt about its being carried by a large majority. It would Jndeed take a heavy rate to outweigh the benefits conferred by a goJ.J and reliable system of drainage.