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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1727, 5 April 1905, Page 17

The opening of the Gisborne-Ts Ivaraka railway 7 has been fixed for the 13th prox. It is expected that several members of the Ministry will be present at the opening ceremony. Corporation workmen are erecting fifty cast-iron rubbish bins at intervals along tho main thoroughfares of the city. The bins, which are similar to those in use in Melbourne and other cities, are about eighteen inches square and about 4ft Gin in height. Each bin has an inner receptacle which catdsSß tho street refuse when “posted” by th® street scavengers, and which, when full, is emptied into passing rubbish carts. Persons can have no excuse now for throwing paper, banana-skins, cigarends, etc., about the main streets; by dropping such refuse into the boxes provided they will show good citizenship. There are at present only eight hoys engaged in tidying the woodblocked streets. They are paid at the rate of 3s per day. “Even at that pay 7 ,” says the City 7 Engineer, “boys are very hard to get, and we find it very difficult to keep them. In Melbourne ihey are rushed with applicants for the .* but the New Zealand hoy either imagines there is some opprobrium at- • .emng to the work, or else doesn’t like being *ch yacked’ by other boys. Still, I.Bs a week is good money for a stout i)o y of fourteen, and the work is not hard.”