BEACHES AND SEWAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 169, 17 July 1907, Page 6

BEACHES AND SEWAGE.

: BISGUSSLON: DBVONBOBSt? At the meeting of-the Dewonport Bflf ough Council, last-night a tetter ■***"**'■ ceived from the.secretary of Board conveying: *, reeoliitipii. i •wi^iin#y. : ence; to the aUegedyoUiitioMrf the and. foreshore- ajt Devongort a*. fifej'rSSPl of the discharge of; sewage. Several coumallars stated that **^H

had absolutely failed to detect any nni* ,. ance arising frojnt the Ejewage ■■ The District Heaith Officer also ««■■ ; to the Council, enclosing reports fmsk.it* J. A. Pond, colonialanaly*% «»«- Dγ Makgill, Government Bacteriplogo^:, ": on the condition of liittle Shoal B»yi which, is, the part of the Jop^Kirifi* , plained of. Pond eminatioa for nitrates, I hftve;. fSfi*; ; faint traces, but not more thaa expect to find in any estuary in, the-IK*" jj sence of fine mud." Dγ Matkgilt_r.epqrteSthat he only succeeded in. getting? «• aeries of organisms of the Proteus iwnttjj at all suggestive of. the. presence of-Wii* mal matter. The usual sewage organiap* were nqt present. "With regard," he;COn«: tinned, " to my reference to the dangee from eating shell fish, J, would point out: that I referred to the shell fish collected X at the immediate outfall of the serifep- ■ ■within, a. diataqce of three chains; <* either side." It -was, decided to forward copies of tM Teports to the Harbour Board . . •The borough's, sanitary" inspector rafc l mitted a report on the beaches from.opposite Stanley-street to Narrow Nec|t • On. the fpj;eshor.e, fronting King Edward Parade, there was, in. hig opinion,. Hβ- ■ trace of contamination. At North, he found nothing contrary to the report r of the District Health Officer., ,WM§§ gax.d t° Cheltenham Beach. and ; NarM* Neck he concurred with the report mad* ■ bjr- Dx. Purdy Sftme.tinjfi. ago.. .K.: ;