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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6087, 2 March 1891, Page 2

Something will have to bo douo to mitigate tho swamp nuisance. It bus now become unbearable. With a westerly wind, the stench from the decaying vegetation win only be described as awful. The evil smell is blown into the houses, permeates every room, and renders life within doors a misery, if not causing sickness and disease. There i_ no tide-way now in tho swiimp, und tho stagnant water can only bo frc-hened by rain. 'Iho residenU aluiig Welleslcy read can put up with tho droiulfu) nuisance no longer, and have come to ihi-oniiclii. ioii i,h,,|, unless tho stench in abated l hey must hhii't to another purl, of flic tm. -.-,. Hut the whole town suitors 10 c. inure v. ) ..-.-. i ,-lont from tho i,amo cause. Tho .-ie.kly .sniull is aa otrouy ou tho Marina Piuudu uu it it, iv

Wellesley road, Munro, and Hastings streets, wherever, indeed, there is a clear opening to the swamp, and to tbe hills the strnch rises. We have all along opposed the proposal to divert the Tutaekuri river so as to run a fresh stream of water through the lagoon, aud we are still inclined to doubt whether it would answer expectations. But, considering the circumstances of the case, the experiment had better be made, and that without delay. At all events, as no other scheme has been put forward, we must presume it is regarded as the only one likely to succeed.