A SERIOUS MATTER.
To the Editor of the Wairarafa Daily.
March 11,1880.
Sib, —On coming into Masterton this morning, one of our most respectable tradesmen put this question to me—" Is it right, and is it allowed to put the night cart used for the removal of the filth of the town, into either of the town streams and there washing it?" I replied I thought not. " Well," the same gentleman replied, " it has been done, and that in broad day, tooand, if I mistake not, he said it had been done in the stream near the mill or Thompson's baker's shop. I think, sir, that such acts should be strictly prohibited, as there are many persons and families who uso the water of the larger streams for their domestic purposes. I believe I am correct in stating that he also said it had been done some day this week. If such things are allowed, sickness, as a matter of course will increase with all its concomitant circumstances, and attendant evils, -I am, <k,
Prevention. [Such a practice would not, we think, be permitted in any other town in the Colony than Masterton,—Ed. W.D.]
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 413, 13 March 1880, Page 2
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194A SERIOUS MATTER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 413, 13 March 1880, Page 2
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