Explaining the diMeulties with which the Council had to contend Mr. Gimson stated that when the Extra-Seltlement roads were first made was not anticipated that liberal d Jage would have to be installed. After the Elly Government came into power the S.M.C., he continued, were not allowed to lay any drains or to spend any capital sums in the area.
Another cause, he said, lay in the fact that the drainage in the Western district was really carried out by the ferecks, Today there had sprung up around these creeks hundreds of factories with the result that they were being partially closed by di charges from the factories. "Henes when rain fell in huge quantities they could not cope with the rush of water and flooding occurred, West of the Settlement boundary there was no extensive drainage system, Mr. Gimson explained, and the S.NLC. were not able to do anything to improve the existing drainlage. Formerly they had been able to negotiate with the City Government to keep the main drainage creeks clean "but today they" were not allowed even to-do this,"
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