REFUSE IN THE HARBOUR
The tossing of rubbish into the harbour is considered by the authorities a crime equal to if not more serious than similar practices in the city streets, yet on almost any day of the week a stroller along the waterfront will see refuse floating around the wharves. Today, particularly in the neighbourhood of the Star Boating and Wellington Rowing Clubs' sheds, a most unpleasant-looking collection of bits and pieces was tossed about by the sea. Potato peelings, onions, cabbage ends, boxes, bottles, fruit skins, oil, flax matting, odds and ends of wood, tins of many sizes, and coke—to mention but a few of the things immediately noticeable—were piled up by the northerly sea on the landirig skids of the two rowing clubs. Whenever there is a northerly blowing for a day or more a remarkable collection of'rubbish collects in the Te Aro area. A good deal of it comes from the ships in port. But however much floats on top of the water a much fouler and more varied collection lies on the sea bottom to be brought to light when a dredge makes its rounds to deepen the ship berths
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 85, 10 April 1935, Page 12
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195REFUSE IN THE HARBOUR Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 85, 10 April 1935, Page 12
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