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ONLY ONE FRESH CASE AT SYDNEY YESTERDAY'.
Received 10.55 p.m., "l4th. . SYDNEY, May 14. A fresh, case is Alice Russell, of Woolahra.
The cleansing of .the City and suburbs is steadily progressing, as one area is released anotner is quarantined. CHRISTCHURCH, May 14.
Dr Mason, Health Commissioner, was engaged this morning' in visiting the drainago board, and the pumping station and -eewage farm, and he considers the present jln'ethbd of sewage disposal, by pumping -into se'ttliripf'pitsin the sandhills and then disintegrating it by means of water, , and -Using*" the "fluid fpr reclaiming sand hills, - tho most perfect he has.seen iri the colony, veiy little behind sceptic tanks, al- ' though there' is, a! very slight smell from the operations." He does not consider there is anything deleterious to health, as the farm is far enough removed from any residences. So far as he has seen Christchurch compares vgry favourably with the North Island centres, and he, however, advoccates. tlie completion of sewage system, which' he considers can on'y be accomplished^ by amalgamation of the suburbs with - Clirist'churcli under one head.
. . To-morrow he inspects the wharves at Lyttelton."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 15 May 1900, Page 3
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187LATER. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 15 May 1900, Page 3
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