INSANITARY CONDITIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 10

INSANITARY CONDITIONS.

BY-LAW PROSECUTIONS.

DEFECTIVE RUBBISH TINS,

I A large number of prosecutions for breaches of the city sanitary by-laws were heard in tie Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., the object of tho prosecutions being to impress en the public the necessity, in the interests of health, of keeping premises dean, providing suitable covered metal receptacles for rubbish, and keeping those receptacles dean. The majority of offenders were fruiterers and boardinghousa keepers.

All Wong and Co., fruiterers, wore fined £4 and 14s coste for having failed to keep their yard in a cleanly condition, and to provide suitable covered metal receptacles for rubbish. It was stated that in the yard there were cases containing rotten fruit and other rubbish, rats actually being seen running about the premises. For having allowed rubbish to be placed in other than suitable receptacles securely covered with lids, Margaret B'ong'was fined £2 and 7s costs. Thomas Cleee, M. C. Edgar, Pearson Gardiner, Florence Gee. William Horning, E. Hunter, Frances Ingram, Tony Kalavich, David Livingstone, John Lipanovich, Marian McConachie, Margaret Molesworth, Clara Parish, Quing Kee and Co., John Roich, John Robertson, W. A. Saddler, Paul Sweet, J. R. Winklev, and William Simpson were each fined £l and costg for eimilar offences. Failure to protect fresh fruit from dust and flies resulted in K. H. Bodalia and Chhania Kuvargi being fined £1 and 7s costs.

Two butchers, G. O. Knight, jun., and George Shand were each fined £2 and costß for having failed to keep the doors of their shops closed.