Disorderly Meeting on the Westward Ho! Drainage Question; after a discussion which has now extended over about six years, the question of the drainage of Westward Ho! Seems as far from being settled by the Northam Local Board as ever. Some six weeks ago there were faint hopes of the matter being brought to a settlement as a letter was received from the Local Government Board acknowledging the receipt of a letter from the Northam Local Board stating that they were prepared to carry out works of sewerage at Westward Ho! And requesting that the Northam Local Board would pass a formal resolution authorising an application for their sanction to borrow such an amount as would, with the sum already unexpended by the loan of 1870, be sufficient o enable them to carry out the works referred to, and that a copy of such resolution together with plans and detailed estimates of such of the works as had not already been sanctioned by the Board may be forwarded within six weeks, the board would then direct a local enquiry to be held on the subject by one of the Inspectors. … (meeting to discuss Mr. Risdon’s plan) … The Rev. E. Reynolds asked Capt. Sangster whether the sum of £500 that he mentioned provided for the levels of the lower … of Westward Ho! Capt. Sangster said that was one of Mr. Ellis’s objects, but the case was now altered because the sea had so broken in, that no man in his senses would … on the low level. Mr. Reynolds, then we should … a portion of Westward Ho! And leave a large portion undrained? The pressure brought upon this Board was in consequence of Mr. Pinsent’s house not being properly drained, and now you propose not to drain that part. We have a scheme proposed by Mr. Risdon which was discussed, but we have no scheme proposed by Capt. Sangster …
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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887