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A meeting of the Parish Council and overseers was held in the vestry room at
7pm Present Mr Lock in the chair, Major Winter vice chairman, Messrs C. Pidler.
W.A. Easterbrook, J. Easterbrook, A. Pidler, and W. Pidler
The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
A circular was read from the clerk to the County Council respecting the basis
for County Rate and it was resolved that this council should make no
objections to the same.
It was reported that a drain had been laid at Marsh Cottages and that a pipe
had been tapped for connecting the same with the sewer and on the motion of Mr
Lock seconded by Major Winter the clerk was instructed to write to the
District Council with reference to the same. The following is a copy of the
letter sent.
Instow 22nd August 1900
Dear Sir
It will no doubt be in the recollection of your Chairman that 3 years since
the attention was called to the desirability of the District Council taking
measures to provide that sewers which had been constructed by them should be
placed under the supervision and control of someone in order to prevent the
connection of the drains thereto being made without proper supervision. I am
directed by the Instow Parish Council to again call your attention to this
matter, as quite recently a connection has been made to a sewer in this Parish
it is believed in an improper manner as the drain was not brought to a manhole
or to a junction. I may say that I gave the person who made the connection
particulars of the exact position of the various junctions on the sewer, but
instead of carrying his drain to a junction it is believed that a hole was
made into the sewer for the connection. The Parish Council beg to submit that
sewers constructed as they are at the cost of the public should be strictly
guarded and every precaution taken that they should not be interfered with by
any private individual unless under the direct supervision of some really
competent person appointed by the District Council or Parish so that the risk
of their efficiency may not be imperilled.
Your obedient Servant
J.P. England
W.H. Toller Clerk to the Parish Council
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