POLLUTING THE GROUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6394, 16 May 1882, Page 3

POLLUTING THE GROUND.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —" Proh Pudor" should know that I spoke of what the " boxes" are, not what they might be, under his management. The "moderate charges," &c., are quite beside the question; if managed for nothing they would still be the same abomination and curse that they are now. I said it were better that all were put in the ground than thus done; that the ground would not be polluted, and the air still less, but that it would.become quite pure. Now, if he could controvert this, he should with some argument, not by mere assumption—which is nothing. I proved my assertions by the fact, that as soon as it is put into the ground, the evil is annihilated, a chemical change takes place, it is a different thing, and the difference is as great as that between water, and oxygen, and hydrogen, from which it may have been converted! Can ho deny this? But some may say, How is it in practice ? Don't we want the proof of practice? Well, and you have the practice of a thousand years, by hundreds of thousands of people (and closer crammed than the few dozens and few years of Auckland). And that city, with its hundreds of burial yards, and thousands of slaughterhouses, all, too, within its midst, and all this time burying it in the ground most recklessly, and yet that ground was not polluted, nor yet its well water tainted—nor is it to this day—nor will it be for a thousand years to come—because, as I said, you cannot pollute the ground; it is the talk, or rather the senseless blab, of idiots.—l am, &c., B.C. Auckland, May 12. -