CLEANSING A CITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 286, 6 November 1925, Page 7

CLEANSING A CITY.

CAMPAIGN IN SYDNEY. MACHINES DRIVEN BY MOTOR. SYDNEY, Oct. 23. If household refuse, trade refuse, sweepings, market refuse and other types of refuse collected by the street sweepers in Sydney in one year were piled on an area as big as that covered by the General Post Ofhce in Martin Place, the pile would be as hind as the post ofhce tower. Every vJar the cleansing department of the council handles BU.OUU tons of refuse. An analysis of it last year showed that it included 825-5 tons of paper, over jJO tons of tins, 610 tons of scrap metal, 879 tons of rags, 398 tons of bags and 877 tons of glass. It serves to show the enormous quantity of refuse that can accumulate with little or no regard for cleanliness. By way of impressing on the citizens that cleanliness is next to godliness, and that efforts are being made by the council’s cleansing department to do its share in keeping a big city clean, the council carried out an interesting demonstration through the streets during the luncheon hour a few days ago of the newly purchased motor-driven cleansing machines. It was part of an effort to educate citizens in the use of the receptacles provided at the street corners for tram tickets and other litter. Gutter flushing was also included in the demonstration.

Great crowds watched with enthusiasm the process of cleansing and washing the old mother city. Not a few of them probably began to feel uneasy in their conscience about the dead tlogs and cats and other refuse, that they had quietly and in tho dead of night hurled into some side street or paddock.