"A MENACE TO HEALTH." DEFENDANT FINED £5.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 8

"A MENACE TO HEALTH." DEFENDANT FINED £5.

"This is the most extraordinary caso I ever saw in my life, and undoubtedly the worst," said Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., this morning after enquiring into a case in which a man named J. Phillips was charged at the Magistrate's Court with keeping offensive rubbish on his premises in Garrett-street. The house, it, was stated, was found to be full of all kinds of rubbish. The yard was also found to bo in an unpleasant condition. His Worship considered the place a menace to public health, and a fit case for the Health Department to take up. It was (stated that accused had been previously fined. He seemed to havo a mania for collecting old rubbish, and storing it in his house. He was fined tho maximum amount, namely, £5.

The Johnsonviile Town Board met last night. Messrs. F. T. Moore (chairman), A. J. May, T. Bowler, A. Wyburn, and Mildenhall were present. The contract granting a concession to a syndicate ' to light the township with electricity was signed. It provides that the cost for public purposes shall be 3£d per unit, and 8d per unit, less 20 per cent., to private consumers. Tho boaid decided to offer twenty freehold building sites with double frontages to Gordon and Bannister avenues ou th« Recreation Ground for sale at auction ; also teu leasehold sections and an area of five I acres suitable for brickniaking purposes. The board intends to sell and lease portions of the Recreation Ground in order to relieve ratepayers of the cost of paying for the seventeen acres recently acquired from native owners, which area ia in excess of present rei guirements.