SANITATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9285, 12 February 1889, Page 3

SANITATION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—The plan for Auckland (as suggested by you) of carrying away in barges our nightsoil is very plainly the best and simplest. I send you a short description of a method I have thought of :—lron boxes, each to carry half a ton, should be provided, and a cart frame on which two boxes will rest securely; these, when filled, to be conveyed (downhill all the way) to the wharf appointed, where waiting should be a barge, having steam power enough to take its load to the depot; on its deck should be a derrick (steam power) long enough to lift the boxes from the cart frame and place in position on deck. After steaming up to the depot, the boxes in the same manner would be lifted on to the shore or a small wharf, from which by means of a truck and cheap contractors' rails they could be emptied where required. Having delivered the full boxes, the barge would bring down the return boxes (perhaps it is too much to hope for that they might be filled with dry earth), as the barge would lie at the depot all day, the men who work the barge would be able with one horse to run the boxes up to the depot and load them again on the barge ready for the night's trip to town. I have no doubb a suitable place would easily be found within a few miles of the wharf; if not, lam prepared to allow the Council to deposit the nightsoil on my place without any cost beyond the conveyance of same.—l am, etc., * R.C. Queen-street, February 11, 1889.