HOTEL INSPECTIONS
Sir,—From perusing your advertising columns. I presume annual meetings of Licensing Committees will be held in the near future, and would like to know whether the Health Department instructs its inspectors to go round country hotels and report on their condition? During the hot weather experienced last February, I enjoyed a holiday at Roxburgh one of the most delightful places of many in Central Otago for a rest. To some degree the pleasure of my enjoyment was spoiled by a most objectionable smell from a very dirty and disgusting privy, situated at the rear of one of the hotels. Passers-by could not avoid the smell, and this privy was not cleaned during my stay in the town. Surely a condition so offensive and dangerous to health should have come under the notice of health inspectors, and brought to the notice of the licensing authorities of the district—l am. etc., Lover of Central Otago,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26780, 25 May 1948, Page 6
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