The City Council seem likely to be troubled as much by the question of the receiving depot for the night-carts on the railway line as ever they were over the site of the permanent depot itself. Nobody likes the propinquity ; and we do not wonder. The obvious solution of this particular difficulty is, of course, that the receiving depot should be at no regular station at all, but connected by a siding conducting from some unoccupied and secluded spot, where the annoyance to the public may be reduced to a minimum, but really an effort should be made by the Council to reduce the nuisance to a minimum from the first, by compelling rigorously the use of earth, in connection with every household, and by a free use of deodorants and disinfectants in connection with the night - carts. The abomination created by these when passing through our streets at night is a disgrace to any city making the least pretensions to decency ; and more than defective sewerage, or stagnant cesspools, or undisturbed local nuisances oi
any kind, these " carts must spread the germs of death through the streets and. homes of the city and suburbs. This deodorisation and disinfection - being forced on families would cause,of course some expense,but for ultimate economy, and above all for the health: and safety of the whole people, it should be ruthlessly enforced. This being done, the receiving depot on the railway would nob create. a nuisance, and ; more important than this, the operations of these" collectors would not constitute them a perambulating nuisance and a pestilence that walketh in darkness, as they are at present, polluting the pure night air and floating death germs into the chambers of unconscious and helpless sleepers. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9020, 5 April 1888, Page 4
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