Stable Owners Given Chance To Observe Bylaw

Chronicle (Levin), 17 November 1949, Page 4

Stable Owners Given Chance To Observe Bylaw

Oharged imder the Health Act with conduoting horse racing s tables under conditions which were 'of an unnecessarily offensive nature, and, secondly, with permitting to exist conditions capable of causing the hreeding of flies, two race horse trainers, S. Farland and G. Lamb, iboth of Weraroa, were each convicte'd and ordered to pay costs on each charge, the penalty to be 'deferred until the iapse of three months to ascertain if any improvement had 'been brought -about in that time. This course was taken by Mr. J. Hessell, S.M., after hearing evidence in the Magistrate's 'Court, Levin, yesterday in respect of the charges which were preferred by the. health inspecitor for the Levin Borough Council. Mr. J. P. Bertram appeared for the council and Mr. S. H. Philip for fcoth defendants. Evidence was . given by the health inspector, Mr. W. J. Guinan, that the stables were situated in a residential hlock at Weraroa. In the case of Farland's stables they were not really very dirty and attempts had been made to keep them in a sanitary condition. The worst feature was the ciose proximity of the staibles to private houses. When he had stood ifi the adjoining property, "waves of smell" had come over the area, but he could not say definitely whether the smell came from Farland's or Lamib's stables. P'arland had a bin of sorts for collecting manpre, and he had told him that it was cleared every seven days. He had examined this •heap and although at that time there were no flies or sign of breeding of flies, such could easily have -taken place before his inspection. The case of Lamb was similar,, continued the inspector, but he had not the same facilities as Farland for the disposal of manure. Witness stated that seven days was, in his opinion, too long a period for the manure to lie, and that it should be cleared every four days. The magistrate, after receiving the assurance of farland that the manure could be cleared at fourday intervals, said that there was no doubt that a nuisance was being caused, hut that it could to ta large extent be rectified by the shifting of the manure earlier. When a man was earning his living in a closely settled area like Weraroa, he must co-operqte with the authorities. In convicting the defendants, the magistrate said that he proposed to adjourn the quesLion of penalty. for three months. If in that time neither party co-oper-ated in making every effort to dispense with the nuisance, or failed in their efforts to do so, then they would have to be penalised as a detcrrent. ,