"WHAT IS REMOVING?"

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5885, 27 September 1880, Page 6

"WHAT IS REMOVING?"

! TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your report of Thursday night's meeting, Parnell Hall, states that the Mayor said " 'removing' means taking away from the premises." Now the precise words in the clause, No. 7, at the latter part of the clause, and when it had done with vehicles and loading, says carry, remove, or deposit any nightsoil, offal, refuse, or any offensive matter save between 12 and 4 in the morning shall forfeit, pay, &c, no more than £4 19a llfd. Ido not say that the clause ia wrong, but the Mayor's diction is aimply a lump of ambiguity, and will, arm the inspector wi h a scorpion instead of a whip. It is no small evidence of the Mayor's legal aoutcness, when at the present time (instead of using any sort, of vehicle) he loads and uses water as a carrier for "removing" offensive matter, soapsuds), pot-liquor, urine, &c, and which he deposits in a ditch in front of my house, and which I have to pass over every time I move from my house to tbe Manukau Road; tho said ditch, when full, is emptied by the Board's men at any time it pleases them, but always in the day time. Comment is needless on how things are managed in Parnell.—l am, &c, J. B. Strang e. P.S.—Fever is now triumphing as a correlate of the ditch. J.B.S.