A DISGUSTING PRACTICE.

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10916, 6 January 1904, Page 4

A DISGUSTING PRACTICE.

v THE PUtSLIC m ABATTOIRS AND THE DISPOSAL OF OFFAL. To the Editor. Si v-Please allow me space in your valuable columns to protest against the manner in which the offal from the public Abattoirs is allowed to be disposed of. When the ratepayers were asked to sanction the erection of public Abattoirs, I for one, voted for same, hoping that the nuisance, which then existed under the old slaughterhouse system would be abolished, but surely sir, the second evil is worse than the first, for under the old system the pigs were allowed to devour the offal on the premises in .which it was killed, but now it is allowed to be carted along our public roads in open vehicles, to the disgust of the travelling public. Hut even that is not the worst feature, for portions of the offal are often spilled along our Boads, and there left to decompose, and thus contaminate the air we breathe. On this fair New Year's momithere now lies on the roadside abutting on my property, and right opposite the residence of Mrs Sparrow, the carca3e of a half -matured calf, spilled from one of the abovementioned carts. As a regular reader of the "Colonist," I often see your city fathers and prominent residents of Nelson, clamouring for a loan to improve the drainage of the city, and j thereby help to make Nelson a healthy resort, and yet within a distance of J five miles such a state of things is I allowed to exist. I I have hoped Sir, that some abler i pen would have had something to i say on this question, but not having > done so, I deem it my duty, in the interests of the health of myself and family, and the public, to protest against such a state of things, thanking you in anticipation. I JYoursetc, !■ §S$ J. JELLYMAN, j3toke, January 15t,;1904,