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that a light tax will enable the various local bodies both to meet 
the interest of a loan and also provide a sinking fund for the final 
extinction of such loan. 
It should also become an accepted principle with local bodies 
that to be free from debt e permanent, useful, and al e 
works remain ihazectted'? is a false economy and a v 
Discussion. 
Sir Atrrep Roserts desired to know how such a scheme, if 
adopted by an isolated community, could be made to work in with 
a general scheme. 
“Mr. Trevor Jones replied that a general intercepting trunk 
sewer would traverse the whole of the districts concerned and 
district he explained that he did not mean a municipal district, 
ut a drainage district, which included all the land that would 
drain into the sewer in question, or in other words a valley. 
obstructions or difficulties existed then a system of pumping 
would remove all such difficulties. 
Mr. Henson submitted that any general scheme for the 
Western Suburbs should include some provision for draining the 
marshy land lying between the heights and the Parramatta River, 
which, to his personal knowledge, were in a very polluted con- 
dition ; and he said that he hoped that measures would be taken 
to prevent building on these marshes after merely filling over the 
swamp with town ‘rubbish, as is done in some parts. 
Mr. Srayron expressed his satisfaction at being present to hear 
the paper, and stated that he is now retained by Government to 
report upon the introduction of some such scheme into the 
suburbs, but could not so early disclose his views not having 
sufficiently advanced his plans. 
