BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS AT OXFORD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6795, 15 May 1900, Page 4

BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS AT OXFORD.

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Very unsatisfactory condition, and yesterday the Chairman of the Board called a -special meeting of members to discuss .what stens should be taken, in the matter. • . .There wwe present— Messrs Hawker (chairman), Mounsey, Stubbs and Wright. It was. deeded that the Clerk should ire instruoted'to make a house-to-house visit, and take "prompt measures to suppress all nuisances likely to injure the public health, and, particularly, to order the abolition of open cesspits, [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 14, The presence of rats in post offices being to a large extent due to the practice on the part of the public of enclosing wedding cake in paper packets or cardboard boxes, the Postmaster-General has decided to rigidly enforce, the rule compelling tin boxes to be used for the transmission of the article named. , At the meeting of the City Council tonight, the Mayor stated that he had had an interview with the Governor; at which the latter complimented his Worship on the cleanliness of the city and the precautionary measures taken against the introduction of the plague. The City Council to-night decided to.allow poultry (fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and pigeons) to be kept within the city on pay-, ment of a license fee of 5s per annum, no poultry house to be within 50ft of a dwelling or 10ft of a boundary fence. This is practically prohibition, except where those desirous of keeping birds have a fairly large area.