COLLECTION OF GARBAGE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 75, 8 January 1949, Page 6

COLLECTION OF GARBAGE

SERIOUS POSITION IN BRISBANE BRISBANE, Jan. 7. The Queensland State Government will use its employment bureau to recruit more men to operate the city cleansing services. This is the latest development in the crisis of sanitary and garbage disposal brought • about by the refusal of many carters to work for the new contractor unless pay and conditions are adjusted. The labour bureau is dispatching urgent telegrams to all men registered as unemployed labourers inquiring if they want jobs with the new contractor.

The State Government has promised to place its full resources behind the Lord Mayor (Mr J. B. Chandler) in his stand that the men’s demands must must be referred to the Arbitration Court. Mr Chandler to-day appealed in a special broadcast for citizens to volunteer as carters at the week-end to supplement the cleasing staff. The response has been good. Sixty per cent, of Brisbane, which is the third city in Australia and has 400,000 inhabitants, is unsewered. About 44,000 sanitary services and 105,000 garbage services are required. The health authorities have issued a grave warning that, unless the sanitary services are restored Brisbane faces the danger of an optc.ui-ic. One u, tor said: “Mich a hr'Uicdoyn m a citv the size of Brisbane must be \lowed with the greatest alarm It &>anitarv matter is not > adequately, Brisbane will slip back 100 rears and will have suc-h diseases as typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, and gastroenteritis. ’