REFUSE CDLLECTION

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11653, 18 October 1923, Page 3

REFUSE CDLLECTION

CLEANING THE CITY. INTERESTING REPORTS. Mr H. D. Bennett presided over last night’s meeting of the creative committee formed in connection with Health Week. The acting-city engineer (Mr A. J. Paterson) reported on the refuse collected during Health Week. A total of 3308 cubic yards were collected, us against 2085 yards last year, or an increase of 1223 cubic yards. A notable feature about the class of material .handled was the quanttiy of plumbers’ materia], which seemed to have been stacked underneath houses in anticipation of the annual clean-up. While it might be advisable to have the stuff removed during the campaign, it would appear necessary that during the house-to-house inspection by the council’s inspectors, more of this material should be removed at the cost of tlio owner or the plumbing contractor. An appeal was made to the people to lravo rubbish sacks, kerosene tins, old trunks, and other large tins broken up so aa to make the loads more of a solid nature, and thereby allowing more material to be put on each load. It was suggested that a limit be made to the amount to be removed from each place. Several lots of two loads had to be removed from several places, and from one place five loads* had to be removed. Excessive dumping of rubbish on the streets should be stopped. Tho refuse collection commiattoo recommended tile stacking of all refuse neatly inside gates, and not on footpaths or roadway; that it be stacked at gates beforo 8.30 a.m. on the dates as listed for the respective areas; all refuse of a non-burnable nature to bo kept separate from burnable material. It had been found from past experience that many people took advantage of the annual clean-up to foist on to carts ana wagons a largo number of petrol tins and old tanks, which in them'■‘elves were not insanitary, and should have been removed in. the ordinary way at the expense of the occuxiant. Authority was desired for the cleansing superintendent to use his discretion in those cases, and be able to refuse portions of the refuse left for collection when, he was certain that tho residents were not playing the game. J