REMOVAL OF RUBBISH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 4

REMOVAL OF RUBBISH.

At a time when strict municipal regulation!* are "being enforced in all trades and .bucineeses for the improvement of sanitary conditions in the city, it is surely - n anomaly to find the Corporation a flagrant offender in at least one brand) of The services under ite control. The. method of collection of rubbish is a ciiife of offence (o ove-ryOTic in (he city. The Council has provided that household and office rubbish shall be placed in properly constructed receptacles, but it ormtptifß these into great open carts, and when a strong breeze is blowing live groa.:<rr part of the lighter refuse is blown into the air, and finally settles on the street arrd in contiguous buildings. To itrake the cause of offence worse, this collection, ttrrough evpn the office area, adjacent to Queen Street, proceeds in leisurely fashion to well on in the morning. Dwpito the fa.cilitie6 that .1 centrally-situated destruct-or should offer, the position appears to be steadily 'becoming worse. Is it too much to ask that in the heart of the city the TH'bbicih should all be olvarod away by 8.30, and that being mostly of light materials, subject to distribution by even moderate puffs of w.;nd, the carts used should 'be covered in? The Corporation have ill recent times pilloried citizens at intervals on the score of their allegedly uncleanly habits, failing presumably to recognise that they themselves ai-e very much in the -position of persons who live in the type of dwelling subject to serious damage by road metal, even if of the soft description found on our thoToughfares.