The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, JNE 2,1916. SANITATION OF THE BOROUGH.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5447, 2 June 1916, Page 4

The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, JNE 2,1916. SANITATION OF THE BOROUGH.

FT! F/STCTIV E THE RUSH

With tho District Health Inspector the Borough overseer is about to make on inspection of all private dwellings as well as business premises in tho town, with the object of ascertaining the number of building* in the Borough, tRe number connected with the sewerage system, the number not connected, and those in the unsewened ere?.. Note will also be taken erf the general surroundings of all premises inspected. It is to be hoped that the report of the inspection to be submitted to the Council will be a complete and candid one, and that where necessary prompt and vigorous action will ho. taken. Tho sanitary service will no doubt receive eorefill investigation from tho overseer and Inspector, and particularly those premises not connected with the drainage system. lit reports he tme, a very unsatisfactory state of affairs exists in this connection in some parts of the Borough. Then there is the number of dilapidated buildings. The owners of the same received notice some time ago to have them removed, but they appear to !*> in no evident hiunjv to obey the instructions ot the Health Department. Now that the sixpenny load ‘rubbish cart, scheme has been successfully inaugurated. and the fivo pound tip in Regent si root is working much better, Oouncillors may l>e able to seriously consider the enforcement of the sanitation of the town.

On the Mnnawa.tu "River bank, between the Bnllanoe and Upper Oorgo bridges, there is a beautiful piece of hush. There is a rumour that this little pkosuance is to be felled and cleared. The Woodville people are indignant at the idea, and a speciol meeting of the Woodville Borough

Council is to be held: to enter a pro- | test to the Commissioner of Crown Lands at . Napier against the proposed destruction of the bush. The “Examiner” strongly urges the preservation of this famous beauty spot. Referring to the rumour to fell and clear the land, the paper says: —“lt must he remembered that in the interests the lessee this would undoubtedly be a gain. It must also be remembered that the little wood as it stands is probably a protection against the cutting away of the river-bank. Leaseholders of Government land suffer in not being free to do as tbley will with propei*ty that is only temporarily their own. This is undoubtedly a disability. But surely before they took up this land they must have known that, so far as Government leases are concerned, it is the duty of the public to look after them.”