DEFILED STREAM

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 63, 8 December 1930, Page 10

DEFILED STREAM

South Karori Conditions NO FISHING THIS YEAR Referring to the excellent bags of trout fishermen had been securing in the streams around about Wellington, Mr. C. L. Dasent, secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society on Saturday said that the only stream that was unsatisfactory was the Karori Stream below the City Corporation’s septic tanks. That was due to the way in which these tanks were not being attended to, as the effluent from a properly-kept septic tank was not harmful. either to man or fish. Yet, there was no fishing to be got below the tanks this season. .. "Some six months ago, said Mr. Dasent, “we had the water on the stream anaylsed by Captain Phillips, the biologist, and as the result we wrote to the city engineer, and received a reply to the effect that the conditions would be attended to, but as far as we know nothing has been done. Evidently there is something wrong with the filters, and a general clean-up is required,” continued Mr. Desent. “I remember on one occasion making one of a deputation to Dr. Ewart, then superintendent of the hospital, to make a complaint against a septic tank. During the interview he called in an attendant. and whispered something to her. When she came back it was with a tray of glasses and a jug of water. Dr. Ewart explained that the watgg was the effluent of a septie tank in the hospital grounds, and pouring out a glass he drank it down, and invited members of the denutation to do likewise, but none did. That was evidently all right, but I would be sorry for the man who nt present drank the effluent from the Karori tanks.”