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411 She said that the land had been in the family for 75 years and they thought it was time something was done with it. Mr. George M. Fuller of 2210 Mass. Avenue was present at the hearing. Mr. Rowse asked if Miss McCaffrey had considered the advisability of cutting up the land into lots containing 12500 square feet. She said that she had,but her engineer thought that the 7500 square foot lots would be mucic more practical way to cut up the property, and the plan had been on file for so long that it should go through that way. She has gone to the exp en se of having an engineer lay this out and she would prefer to have it approved and recorded as laid out. Miss Ready stated that this layout was approved in 1931 and they would prefer to have the smaller lots approved. The Chairman asked Mr. Fuller if he wished to make any statements and he said that he would prefer to see the land cut up into larger lots. Mr. Rowse asked why the approval of this plan had been held up and Miss McCaffrey said that it was because of indifference as since 1929 there had not been any building. The Chairman told her that the matter would be taken under advisement and they all retired. The hearing was declared closed at 9:07 P.L. It was decided to await the Planning Board's decision , before taking any action on the Petition.�l ' Seventieen residents of the Liberty Heights section appeared before the Board to discuss the need for a sewer in that vicinity. -Mr. P. J. Nary of 5 Bennett Avenue said that 96% of the houses in the section of Oak Street, Baker, Bennett, Butler and Ames Avenues had overflowing cesspools. He said that- most of the people had used up all of their land so there was no more drainage. He purchased his house in 1920 and there was a well 80 feet deep that he used'for a cesspool. Two years after he purchased the house, the well overflowed and he dug another cesspool. Fbur years later that overflowed. Since then he has built two drains 48 feet long, six feet deep and four feet wide, and filled them in with rocks, and they are overflowing. He said that he could not work in the garden because the place was infested with small black flies which breeded because the soil was so rotten. Three weeks ago a man started to build a foundation only ten feet from Mr. Nary's cesspool. One Sewer morning when he went ou t,.he found that the cellar was Vicinity saturated with matter which had seeped through from the of Oak cesspool. He said that there was a brook which crossed Street. Oak Street into which three cesspools were emptying at the present time. This brook eventually reaches Arlington and is bound to cause trouble. Mr. Malcolm Clifford said that he had had a similar experience and that every time it rained his cesspool overflowed. Mr. James Barnes of 60 Oak Street stated that he complained of the condition about one month ago. His