THE INSPECTORSHIP OF NUISANCES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 271, 21 February 1879, Page 2

THE INSPECTORSHIP OF NUISANCES.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail

Dear Sir,—-Can you inform me what the necessary qualifications are for the above appointment? I have hitherto been under the impression that an abnormal sensitiveness of the olfactory nerves was an absolute essential in business cf this kind ; but recent experience has rendered me somewhat dubious as to whether this is considered a requisite. A walk alone: the strip of beach connecting the two portions of the town will, to the observant eye, and ndse, fully explain the origin of my state of doubt on the point. Within the short space alluded to may be seen, and smelt, the bloated, decomposing remains of canine and feline animals of various sizes, and refuse of the filthiest description, from which, on a hot day, there arises the most abominable stench. Yet, though our affable and rotund Town Clerk, whose appointment as Inspector of Nuisances was but lately gazetted, traverses this intervening space at least twice a day on his way to and from his office, no steps are taken either to remove the niisightly putrid corpses, or to prevent the depositing on the beach of the filthy refuse. Is it not fair then, Sir, to assume that our worthy Town. Clerk, noted though he be for his portly presence and his sjweet barritone x jedeficient in that supposed sense of smell, as alsp f in anotheressential, that is, observation ?/j This the case, would it not be better for-Jh'm to hire some other nose; I uiet\i?*some other fellow with a nose capable of having some scents put into it ?—Yours, &c,

BURGESS.