Sanitation.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 50, 10 December 1912, Page 4

Sanitation.

|To THE EDITOE."! Sir, —Many months have since the Borough Council to k oilice. 1 hough meetings hate been numerous ard judging from your tepo.t-dis-cus ions have plentiful inching se. ins to have be n chn: tc clail with the insanitary statj of the t wv. It is trie that a very iir.matute drainage schenu Wdß rubmit'.ed tithe raepayers, tut from the start it waobvioui that there via-i no chance of this being sanctioud. Having got t; this s'age the Ciuntil cai sidrred th:y hEii accomplished tie t duty and proceeded to go lo sdeep again. The fiie-bell lower an i ih> question oi sites cai occupy the attentioa of 11 •■'. councillors tor m. eting af er meeting, hut when it cones to tackling ths most scrim problem facing the Ciu cil the members are ea?y victims of the laihaa microbe. Doubtkss the old excuse will be advanced: no by-laws, hut if th.re is anythirgin th-: stflteir,ent mule by the late Mayor at tha public me.tig of tattpr.ytrs to con.ddet the loan propo?f.l3, tne Council, 'f they hod th. ? by laws, v.o.'dhi\cto rv lve a scheme. Is it net silly to talk abuut by-laws before any proposals to remedy this disgrace—and which it ii a wonder Htslth Department has not 1-jiiy »go stepjed in anl liken actio.l have been brvujht forwaul. Very like putting the Cirt Lefo.c t e hcrte. Pukekohe is perhaps as insanitary a town lor its population as there is in New Zeulat.cl. If anybody knows of a wors3 one I should te pleaded to knew of it. Summer is here and it is certain that nnihi'g can 16 done this tummer. Will anything be done hifoie next .cummer? At the present rate of pio,.rcss there is grave cause for doubt. It is to be Hoped, Sir, that you will take this ver.y impotiant up, and endeavour to a.vaken the i,u..ncll to the responsibility resting en their '.i.ouluers, ar.d to the tact that t'-.e public ere i.xptefiriK tacin L> do tomething mote Ih.u inner away lime LVcJ tii\ial n.attei.-.- 1 am, etc., KEdIDENT.