REFUSE ON VACANT ALLOTMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9180, 9 October 1888, Page 3

REFUSE ON VACANT ALLOTMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR. i Sir, —I should like through the columns of your widely-circulated paper to call the attention of the City Fathers (if they are not already aware) to a most disgusting practice the people of Auckland have, viz., depositing rubbish and all kinds of refuse on vacant allotments. One of the moßb noted streets for this practice is Upper Queen-street, and I believe I am correct in saying you cannot go from the foot of that; street through to Newton Road without receiving a substantial stench from a number of the fever beds : in fact, almost every vacant allotment you come across has rubbish of every desoription heaped there*', on, smouldering in the sun, and the frefib breeze fanning it into the nostrils of the passers-by. I think it is high time our City Fathers took firm steps to see that the sanitary arrangements of the city are pro-! perly attended to, and all nuisances fchatt breed fevers (such as the above) be by finding out the offenders and bringing them to justice. We have sanitary in* speccors who make it a part of their dufcj to visit backyards, and if they are anyway dirty summonses are issued against the tenants, and they are fined ; but nuisances like the above, which affect the whole community, are allowed to go on, and no effort is made to abolish them. The typhoid season is coming around oace more, and unless we make an effort to take the bull by the horns, and prevent lazy people from j depositing rubbish and filth on vacant} allotments instead of burying it deep iW the ground, we might have a more di* astrous season than the last.—l am, <fcc., Health Mount Eden, October 6, 1888.