FREEMAN'S BAY NUISANCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9118, 28 July 1888, Page 5

FREEMAN'S BAY NUISANCES.

During the past few days the residents near Freeman's Bay, and pedestrians who have had to pass through the district, have been considerably annoyed and inconvenienced by a noxious and unpleasant aroma that has arisen from the heaps of refuse deposited by carts, etc., on the bank of the reclamation sloping down into Freeman's Bay, near to where the city sewer runs. This refuse had the effluvia of stale fruit and vegetables, and other like rotting matter. Complaints have been made about it, and yesterday the Mayor, Mr. A. E. Devore, having become personally satisfied as to the stench being no mere imaginative one, sent the following letter to the Secretary of the Harbour Board, Mr. J. M. Brigham : — Dear Sir,— number of persons are depositing in Freeman's Bay a quantity of decayed vegetables, decayed fruit, and other objectionable matter, and claim to do so as if right, under permission from the Harbour Board. The City Council cannot stop what is complained of, and can only proceed when a nuisance is created as at present exists. Will you, in the interest of public health, put a stop to the practice mentioned, and prosecute any person for depositing on' the Board's land any matter which is or may prove prejudicial to the citizens.(Signed) A. Devore, Mayor. Not content with sending this letter to the secretary of the Harbour Board, the Mayor also forwarded the following memorandum to the Town Clerk, Mr. P. A. Philips:—" Enclosed find copy of letter sent by me to the secretary of the Harbour Board. A quantity of offensive vegetable matter was deposited in Freeman's Bay this morning. Instruct the Sanitary Inspector to trace the cause of this complaint, and to prosecute the offenders under the Police Offences Act.—(Signed) A. E. Devoke, Mayor." A representative of the Herald waited on the Mayor relative to the matter, and in reply to queries the Mayor said the Council were determined, so far as they could, to put an end to all these nuisances both in the city and suburbs. Relative to the city abattoirs, they had the matter in hand. The nuisance there wlls caused in a great measure by tempraary improvements being made, and he believed in a very short while steps would be taken to thoroughly do away with any of the causes of the complaints that had been made. The Council were thoroughly alive to the matter, and so far as he himself was personally concerned, .as he resided 011 the ridge of Ponsonby Road, he was vitally interested in the Cox's Creek district being rendered as sweet and healthy as possible, and would use his best eilbrts to further this- consummation.