HAMILTON EAST DRAINAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1537, 11 May 1882, Page 3

HAMILTON EAST DRAINAGE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — I cannot allow the drainage scheme now being carried out in Grey and Cook-streets, Hamilton East, to proceed without entering a protest as a burgess against the same. Idoso as I consider it a matter of duty to my fellowburgesses to let them know the probable amount of the expenditure incurred by the works in question, and also what good they may expect from these works when completed. In the first place the running of the drain from Grey-street down Cook-street to the gully is what may be called draining against nature, that is, a striving to turn the water from its natural course, and force it to where it never was intended to go. Secondly, the amount of fall is not sufficient for the length of piping to be used, and, thirdly, the pipes are not sufficiently large to cany off the quantity of water which they will be asked to do. In all of these opinions I have the support of both Messrs Breakell and Simms, so that the scheme is purely a Borough Council one, and the oouncillors alone are responsible for their action. The cost of the work to the borough will be fully £120 without allowing anything for engineering expenses, or supervision, which already tot up to over £12, and when finished the drain will be another of those works of art which are the ad- / miration of townsfolk on rainy days in Hamilton. The statements I make I am quite prepared to prove to the satisfaction 01 any unbiassed mind and I still maintain that the proper course to adopt would be to run the water directly iitfo the Waikato river in a flume, which 'tbih cost of less than £50 would last for the next 15 years, with no more than ordinary repairs. — I am, &c, T. G. Sandes.