ALLEGED BREACH of SANITARY REGULATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9436, 6 August 1889, Page 5

ALLEGED BREACH of SANITARY REGULATIONS.

At a meeting of the Newton Borough Council, yesterday evening, the following report was received from Mr. J, Currie, Sanitar3 r Inspector :—

Having received information from various sources, during last week, that nightsoil was being deposited on Mr. Thomas Faulder's property, situated in Surrey Crescent, Richmond Ward, being allotment No. 15, adjoining the City Abattoirs property, and near the Western Springs, I made it my business, in company with Constable O'Brien, to visit the property, on Friday, the 2nd instant, and found that about an acre of hind had been newly ploughed over, and a man was in the act of harowing it. I questioned Mr. Fauldcr, who was present, and he admitted having received only four loads, and that they had been deposited there by the city nightsoil contractor. In consequence of city refuse having been deposited on the same property in March, 188S, I sent notices dated 11th April, 1888, warning both Messrs. Casey and Faultier that they would be prosecuted if it was continued or repeated. I have shown that this has been clone, and would now draw the Council's attention to the powers vested in them by the Public Health Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 1884, section 3, which reads as follows :—" It shall not be lawful for the council of any borough or the Board of any town district to establish, or jxirmit to be established, any depot or place for the reception or deposit of nightsoil removed from any such borough or town district so as to become a public or private nuisance, or a source of danger to the public health. If any local Board shall commit, or suffer any breach of this Act, or fail to comply with the provisions thereof, any person aggrieved may cause proceedings to be taken against the corporate body which such local Board represents, in like manner as proceedings could be had or taken by a local Board against any person under the 59th, 60th, and 61st sections of the said Act; and all other provisions of that Act as to proceedings, the making and enforcement of orders, and as to appeal therefrom, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply accordingly, and anything required to be done under the said Act by a local Board may, for the purpose of giving effect to this enactment, be done by any aggrieved person."

The Mayok commented on the fact that this charge had been made against a member of the Council and of the Board of Health. He moved, " That Messrs. Casey and Faulder be informed thab if they continue to deposit nightsoil upon the allotment they will be prosecuted under the Public Health Act."

The motion was seconded by Mr. Brown, nnd agreed to.