Diptheria and Swamps.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1679, 27 February 1885, Page 3

Diptheria and Swamps.

lo tU Fditor thi St-.i.iiJ. ird. bo .—My attention having been called by a resident, to a letter signed 0, in last Monday's Standard, at the same time inferring that I was the writer tl ere A. I beg to give the accusation a most unqualified denial, as I neither know the writer or hold the same opinions he puts forth I. 1 , the first pi; ce, I consider trie ratepayers have no right m be taxed to drain anyone's !yicitv, and in the next, I very much doubt n the Town Board Lave any legal light to wiM• t 1 '"reis of swanrp land, (as formed by n.-.ttitf, to drain it. To fact, in tins instance w1 bo ur.po-i-ib'.c to do so. unless they started with the Waharapa Lake, the only p:ace th it the sw imp comjra.ned of can be Irmti u I have lived in Featherston s ■ vo u- :ni mast s-y I have never pL.’i.ei t;.- nuUmor 0 complains of, but I hive y-.-. t i.niy. Ac times, th: stsich arising from sate , c rs' yards and pig yards, formerly ex:s! ng j-i that b.icadty. The Board of w.,:ch y -ur *v,respondent names, or recommending the Local Board of Penhurst, • '■■■ -u'phate of ir..n, to kill the disease in t -.t -simp of ttteus, must really have tt-iiutu-.d it a very small one indeed, or p-m ips may bare- mean: a nit belonging to ooc M their tanneries, two of which maaufme? I know they have in that township, H.vd e likely to be the cause of the dh--tnan the swamp. It would, however, he i-'tnv.' *o know bow much of that com--I‘-v would take to kill the disease in our In acre swamp. I think asyone attempting that Herculean task, would be a at subject for the 5. aria Bend. Now this vile swamp, as he cads it. is private property, and cannot be murfereu w;tn by the Town Board, as the nuisance (if any, is cot caused by refuse or ‘ev.iigc from any rnanutactorv running into it. As the latter part of his letter is very ambagious, wen' ! d he kindly inform the public what it is, a? ihej present time would go a great way towards d: -fining the swamp, which ihiougLou 1 . nin- months in the year is a pure running stream. I am, Ac., J, D. Osklev. Fe.t eratoa, jjhbrttary 2tith, 1855.