CITY REFUSE AT MOUNT ALBERT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1892, Page 5

CITY REFUSE AT MOUNT ALBERT.

THE RESIDENTS' PROTEST.

Last night a meeting of residents and ratepayers of the Moun I . Albert district, was hold in the Christians' Meeting House, New North Read, to protest against city refuso being deposited in the districtThero wore between 30 and 40 present, including two ladies. Mr E. Perkins was voted to tho chair, and Mr A. Mercer appointed secretary to tho meeting, ' Tho Chairman stated the object as boing one that concerned every resident in the district. Referring to tho deposit and accumulation of city refuse, he said tho same had been going on for tho last eight years, until ib had become an intolerable nuisance, and at last thoy had determined to uso every moans in their power, and do thoir utmost to stop ib. He explained this meeting had been brought | about owing to their failure in appealing to the local Board of Health, tho Mount Albert Road Board, and called attention to the fact that tho Board, at a special meeting on January sth, passed a resolution to the | effect thab "if any person deposited ! city refuse or other material likely to 'become a nuisance, thoy would bo proscicuted without further notice." This I was duly advertised, and letters sent Ito contractor to the fame cf.'ect by j tho Chairman of tho- Board, but for sonic 1 reason had not. been acted upon. The city | contractor stili continued to deposit the iilth in several different places in the district, thus setting the local Board of Health i ab defiance, and consequently feeling l.hemselvesstrongly aggrieved they had taken tho matter in their own hands and decided to apply to the Central Board of Health for l'olief, and with this end in view a subcommittee had conferred together and drafted cut a letter proposed to bo sent to the Central Board of Health. This'letter was then read to the mooting, also letters from Drs. Lindsay, li'aiuea'and Wine to Mr Hirst, the Inspector of Nuisances, and his report on the deposit also. These had been submitted to the special meeting of the Road Board, along with a petition from about 20D residents, begging them to take action to stop l the deposit"of any more city refuse. i Mr J. Page then moved, and Mr Maxwell seconded, "Thab in the opinion of this meetinp it. is desirable the letter as read along with the medical certificates and Inspector of Nuisances' report, and other documents bo sent to the Central Board of, Health, urging upon them tho necessity for taking immediate action in tho matter to be signed by the chairman on behalf of this meeting. - ' i _ fter some discussion the Chairman put it to the vote, and declared ib carried unanixooiisly. -ii Another nuisance was also, considered, which 1 the chairman stated consisted of an open sewage from the City of Auckland, Ed on Terrace, Arch Hill, and Mount Albert districts. . . Several in the meeting spoke S3 to the sickening stench emitted therefrom the greater par. of tho year, and particularly durin" the summer months, and also thau a lob of cows feeding along its banks often drank of the water, and tho mills from these ! C ows was consumed in the city. It was ! also stated thab the drain was bricked in as ' fir -is the bottom of Newton Road, in the Karangahape ward, and if the bricking m I _o_l_ be continued to a pomtjudged necessary, it would be a great boon to the coml ra The y 'sub-committec also drew up a furthor letter proposed to be sent to tho Central Board of Health on this subject, a S Vino- them if they could deal with this ma ttev under the powers given them under •i. O Public Health Act, 1876. Aft>' r eomo lul ' tlier discussion, Mr A. M„ rn l'- moved tho following resolution, 1)1LI _<w „._ -i ■. itlM _ _l which Jr R a y es seconded: lhab the letter as read be sent to the Central Board of Healffo, and thab tho Chairman bo authorised' to sign the same on behalf of this meeti.og." A vote of thinks to tho Chairman was proposed :md seconded, and carried by acclamation, which v.-as duly acknowledged. In reply, tho Chairman stated thab ho wished it "particularly understood that any thing he had done in the matter ho hoped would not be considered personal reflection on the local Board, as it ivnu the nuisance they fought against only. He preferred to mako friends' and not enemies?, in this matter, The meeting then closed.