NAPIER SEWERAGE OUTFALL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 769, 18 March 1910, Page 8

NAPIER SEWERAGE OUTFALL.

' UNSATISFACTORY STATE OP AFFAIRS. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Napier, March 17. Hatters in regard to sanitation are looming up like spectres before the public of Napier. The following letter, written by Br. H. F. Bernan in to-day's "Daily Telegraph," gives an idea of the position:—" Wo all owe you a. debt of gratitude for bringing before the public notice the present disgraceful condition of the sewer outfall. As you say, we were told by the Napier South Syndicate some years ago that the present condition of things was inevitable as time went on, and the council have waited, I conclude, to see if this opinion was correct with disastrous results. It is probably not.igenerally known that at high tide there is no discharge of sewerage at all at the outlet, as this is sealed. I think this is a matter of such urgency that the council should obtain the opinion of some competent engineer as to whether something can be done to temporarily improve matters until the loan money is available to curry out llr. Taylor's scheme. I am sure my experience is only that of many other dwellers on the. flats when. I say it is impossible to keep one's windows open at night owing to the stench that pervades the town. We have at the present time in our midst typhoid of a more malignant type than. 1 have seen during my seventeen years' practice here, and the mortality has been very high. Napier has up to the present had. a reputation as a health resort.. Is it not a pity to spoil this reputation for want of a little energy and common sense ':"' '