SANITARY INSPECTION. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 128, 31 May 1900, Page 2

SANITARY INSPECTION. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir — From time to time I have read with pleasure your leading articles upon the sanitary inspection of the city. Those who have followed up this matter and read the reports which have appeared from time to time in your paper must be now convinced of the inefficient inspection which has taken place in the past. It is openly stated that the Council has done* all that is required of it by spending £40 of the ratepayers' money in employing assistant inspectors for a month, and there its duty ends. As a matter of fact the great bulk of the recommendations sugested by the assistant inspectors will get no further than the waste paper basket. Why? A glance at the reports will show that the vested interests of a certain class of ratepayers carry too many votes to move Councillors to do their duty. Is it right or just to issue compulsory notices on the "horny-handed" without influence, whilst their more favoured neighbours own numbers of cottages let at big rentals, with no drainage connections, and with filthy little pans running over and poisoning the whole neighbourhood? It seems strange that there is not a Councillor independent enough to* see > that there is a more rigid and a better system of inspection than we have hitherto been blessed with. There is room for improvement, and if these reforms are not taken up by the Council it is about time the ratepayers took a turn. — I am, etc., THORNDON. Wellington, 30th May.

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