ARE WE READY?

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5709, 10 January 1876, Page 3

ARE WE READY?

T<> 11k' I'Mitm : Sir, — In join* of lo day \(»u (il).oivc Hut J)r. Ni ven's (of Dunedin) letter does ii')t .speak favourably of tki> judgment tli-.playo«.l by the lhinudin Sanitaiy ('oiiiiuiiiioiioM, HU'l should indicate to the City Council ol Auckland how to act in the e\ ent of action buiny required. Many of my htU:i-> luve been decried as only showing " how not to do it." Therefore, I leave it to the pubho to answer my question " A>e we le.idy ?" Heady ! lla\e we not a noble h.uhour "H hiuh will hold all the lilth of nd fof ni'iny yoaiM to come '' Heady! li ivo we not a system of deip dialing ■, e\ti uling its lainilications c\ui into our pi I'liiivs, and giving u~> the .id\.uit i^i'j of a eonneLlion with the Iwnhonr cesapool '! Heady 1 Have we not .1 di'put foi*]>.utof AmkUnd's lilth at Arch 1 till, the lull nitliience of wlucli will *.oon he appioeiated at I'onsonby an«l otlu i places? Ht-ady !- .iye 11. uly For h.ivo Mt not .1 lauiled .syi»ttm c.illid an cailh closit \\^tcin, jn full opcia tion, .it the lulling < \p\nsi of about t>\othndsnioii' than th" system lvcoin mended by I oid Kiinbiiloy four ye ir^ ago? Ar» \\t notlookid after by a Cential Hoard of Ht'iltli, and have mo nob local boirds of hcilth? IJ.ue v\e not nis[)e(.toi^ who have t ikcn their (Vgii'es, and aic iiad t s at a MioiiKiit'i notice to (|ii M.intmr, );iii.id, to <li l auli <>l, liiun, <>i dc-tiov any ])lace or in iti 1 i.d that is inlut ted, a-> \\ i U u ltlnuil an !1( ilth Ail as with (nit ' 'I lial none may <|iu iti'iu " Aie we icidv '"' or be ">c n i>tie.il <iu it, I .Cjiiii 1 tlii'tu th.it 1 could adduce far nioie L\.n'i]iKi thiii tin' loie^uiiii', and c({iially cii coiuct. — 1 am, i^«., .1. I) Si i y-i.l [It Air. Sti.vi»j woiilil (hsmid fio. iitlie ln^ii hoi^e ot declmi'toiy >nei-iin, and, instead of npoatn.^ wh.it n is I'jcn often iterated, would, with bievity, tint of the pi.utii.d mu'iitilio pl.un, and "how to do it," his letters might do some service Continued lepctiti.m of the other thing— of \\h it we know — is not likely t> gai.i y-iural fissent. — 1-D ]