TAKAPUNA'S UNSAVOURY DUMP.
(To the Editor! i Sir.—ln the report on the business of , I the last meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council i- the following:—The ! Public Service Committee "find the dump in as good order as usual," also "that the inspector reported that systematic rati poisoning was being carried out." I live within about 100 yards of tlie dump which is carried on, on a piece of quarry reserve, and during the three months which I have been here, the dump has never been in a sanitary or satisfactorystate. lam quite positive that no health inspector could approve of either the situation or the condition of the dump. Rats are here in ten:? of thousands, and increasing in number as time goes on. They have chewed up pumpkins, melons, marrows and maize cons, and left nothing eatable in their track. I have a lair sample ol" their destructiveness to show to anyone interested. The committee may have visited the dump, but they made no inquiry from those who live nearest the dump, those who are the best judges of the extent of the nuisance caused and are most tormented by the noise, sight, and smell of this store-house ol" disease, vermin, and corruption.—l am. etc., P. J. KENNEDY.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 13
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209TAKAPUNA'S UNSAVOURY DUMP. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 13
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