WARNING TO CAMPERS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17759, 5 December 1929, Page 4

WARNING TO CAMPERS.

LITTER OF RUBBISH. LEFT ON PICNIC GROUNDS. The habits of a certain type of camper and holiday-maker who litters beauty spots with rubbish and refuse were the t subject of a letter from the medical officer of health. Dr H. Chesson, received at a meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council yesterday. Dr Chesson said complaints made regarding the conditions at some holiday camping places and the disgusting conditions in which camping and visiting parties had left the land had been found to be fully justified. “It seems strange,” he said, “that some people who in ordinary } life would themselves complain if a- f nuisance existed in the neighbourhood in which they reside, should, when they go away camping, behave in a manner, which, disgraces our so-called civilisation.” No thought was given by j&cff inconsiderate individuals to the people who might come to the same place after them, or to the residents of the locality. Typhoid and other diseases might he transmitted by such carelessness. to say nothing of the nuisance calmed by flies and mosquitoes. There was no difficulty in burying refuse. The prosecution of Offenders was suggested, also the appointment of temporary Inspectors to supervise the more popular camping places.