CORRESPONDENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 49, 27 February 1901, Page 2

CORRESPONDENTS.

STATION ACCOMMODATION,

(To the Editor Gisborno Times.)

Sir,—Great interest was taken a little whilo ago, during the plaguo scareo, in sanitation, and the inspectors wero exceedingly busy inspecting premises to sco if they wero in a sanitary condition. Now, have the Government not passed an Act insisting on propor accommodation being provided for shearers ? If so, does' it apply to the district of Poverty Bay ?

Such a condition of things as the following should not be allowed to exist. One very small building lias a table down the middle, where tho men Jiavo thoir meals. Three sidos of this building is lined with bunks, threo deep, wherein tho men sleep. In tho same room tho tucker is kept both day and night, having for company sweaty saddles, and tho moil’s dirty clothes. This is a disgrace to tlio owners of tho stations who allow men to sleep where tho food is kept. In another instance, I have known four men to sleep throughout tho shearing season, in a room 9 feet by 9 feet, where saddlery and dirty clothes wero also kept. What about tho inspector who must have given those places a cursory glance, instead of a proper examination ? I venture to say tho shearers’ accommodation provided tlioro is tlio worst I have scon in tho colony.— I am, etc., Commotion.