RE SLAUGHTERYARDS.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10631, 3 February 1909, Page 2

RE SLAUGHTERYARDS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir. —'I quite agree with. Mir Oaiusley, re the slaiughteryairds. They, ought to be at least' three or four miles from Thlamies. We !)doi not-inow what the place may be tefter suoK a long speli of quietnesa in. the mines (a 10 ton patch would put things rights and vo havet had o;ne, viz., Young American Caledonian;). Nb\v I venture to sa?* I that in, a few years th© abattoir, if built at the PavawiaS Railway Station will 'ba no improvemenit on the old place, not sa good: mi faeft. Now we can put. it this way: The Natives like fresh air amd not stink smells more than the 'Europeans ; in. fact they are ■taught to be as clean as a European, and the«y are livinig close by wad have as much, right to complain, as : the Pokeha. Not only that, the Totar* property might be built on »t soma futura dattel, and what about tfoe stench and also the river being polluted, witih! blood and entrails floating up a.nd down, by the tidei, and laying lit high water mark rotting, and giving food' for a multitude oi rats that will muse a plague, and breed on the banks of the river by millions. I. really don't know what some people are thinking about. They aiie pnty looking forward fotf next week", when it is 100 year's ahead is what they ought to be looking out for, wlien we are all dead and gone, and the yavayg- omes oauld see ? the fruit of our laibour in their time. I consider the old KirikirL mill 1 site, the proper places—on the banks nf the Thamesl ißSver, where scows could land cattle. There are. 30 odd' aoroa IdivaiiliaibHfil,, ia>nd more (kind if ttey wanted it,-and that is the place that fa nevW flooded like the ' ParawaiTobairai site, where thfe BSa.uaerain'g'a Riiver overflows its banks, and. it is knee-deeJp in watear.—l am> ettto,; . , : . : %PIiUiRIB(US i:U!NiUM. , Kbpu, Februairy ®nd.