SOAPWORKS NUISANCES. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7652, 27 August 1886, Page 4

SOAPWORKS NUISANCES. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —You will remember the discomfort whiih < . most of us fi-lt some time ago from the offensive <V atmosphere which soemed perpetually to hang i ' ;r over the city, and which was for a long time I;:. ':■ assumed to arise from ordhiiry sewage, but ulti- i "■ mately traced to the tallow-bniling operations l-i3 carried ou at the soapwoiks. When this dis- j ';■;.. covery was made the nuisance was greatly //.i abated by, as it appears, the tallow being boiled '•»' ■ elsewhere. ,;•'." I would, however, call the attention of the 'i-'-v inspector of nuisances to the fact that every f." ■ now and again the nuisance springs up afresh, i "' cy, to-day during the afternoon (and upfill the ).',.'■;■' hour of writing this note) an abominable tallow i.' Laistench pervaded the city. Some time ago one '■■■'■■ of the Mr M'Leods was (foolishly, I think) i;.;. allowed to carry on soapmaking in the city on ! ' •.'• promising not to boil tallow within the city !■■■■■ ,v limits. Ido trust the inspector will take the ] :■":■'. .;■" matter in hand and see what can be done. ;,; ; There is no reason why this fair city should be f; made unbearable through the existence of nui- i .''-■:'■'■'■ sances which it is the tendenoy of all modern ;■'..:•"''' civilisation to drive from the abodes of men.—l L-: am, &c, • [•:.' \ J. Wood. | Dunedin, August 23. i