HOROWHENUA COUNTY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 5

HOROWHENUA COUNTY

Matters .of eonsidcmbte Interest were discussed at the Horowhenua County CouuoiJ on Saturday with regard lo Otaki. The county engineer reported that motorcar traihe is increasing about 50 per cent, a year; oars could now bo met with at almost every corner. In regard to the tViroldno riding' ho reported that the lower Kuku and Muhunoa roads were being cut up very badly. Settlers were carting timber for building purposes, and there was always a certain amount of hax carting- Tenders -would be opened that day for effecting improvements. The engineer emphasised the importance of apiKHnting a ranger for the riding. The roads wore now stockyards for all sorts of animals. The Minister of Railways wrote stating that he regretted that he could not see his way to comply with the council's reciues* that the charge of rate and a half on imported hardwood timber used by county councils’ lor bridges and culverts should be reduced •A circular letter waa received from the Health I Apartment with reference to rhe •checking and prevention of plague. In this ccunfction, Councillor Venn eaid thatthe Health Department kept worrying taiem and n Iher local bodies about des+roying rats and other things which they carried disease but the department was very slack in attempting to abolish the source from which diisease emanated. Six months ago the council passed a resolution on the subject A copy was sent to the chief otticer and another one to the department, but neither had even acknowledged them. The resolutions in question dealt princi7>ally with pigs. He had seen pigs kept in many countries and under a variety of conditions, and he could safely saj' that for keeping them in unadulterated filth New Zealand easily led the way Many of the piggeries were in close proximity to slaughterhouses, and the people's food in many cases was poisoned witn germs before the meat left the slaughterhouses. Recently a paragraph appeared in the press to t-hi v effect that at a slaughterhouse in the North Island, up the coast, 52 pigs were killed in one day, and of that number 45 were diseased and couM not be exported. The infersnco was they were fit food for the people of Now Zealand. He moved that in reply to the Health. Department the chief officer’s attention be drawn to a resolution forwarded by this couucil to himself and to the department whereby, it was sought to ha-ve piggeries removed from the vicinity of registered slaughterhouses, and pointing out tho danger that at present fexists through ram, dies and stench saturating the people's food with poison dug germs, thereby spreading the disease that tho department is Jio anxious to suppress, aud that all stock m the last stage of disease be barred from entering slaughterhouses. The motion was adopted.