CITY REFUSE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 903, 24 August 1910, Page 4

CITY REFUSE.

"A DISGRACE TO CIVILISATION." At the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday, Mr. F. T. Moore moved: "That the Wellington City Council be asked, in the interests of. public health, .to prohibit the collection and use of city refuse by private persons for hog-feed purposes." These hog-feeders, said Mr. Moore, some forty iu number, • collected refuse of ■ all sorts, raw fish, entrails of poultry, decayed vegetable matter, and all sorts of filthy' matter. It was a disgrace to civilisation that the practice should be permitted. This stuff was thrown out into paddocks and the pigs were allowed to feed on it. He admitted that some collectors of pig-feed were decent and cleanly in their methods, but they were in a minority. A member: What about the Health Department? Give them the job! Continuing, Mr. Moore said he considered that the City Council should collect this refuse, sort it out, and sell it to pig-feeders. Some of the latter paid £2 or ,£3 per week for the refuse.. Much of it consisted of good food products, but there should be some system in dealing with it. The City Council, if it undertook the work, would make, .£2OOO a year. The filthy vehicles' used by some of these pig-feeders should be banned by regulation. Many of them, did not know what cleanliness meant. • . , , „ Mr., Trevor opined that instead of tho City Council making .€2OOO a year by undertaking this work, they would loso that amount. He agreed that the practice now obtaining was objectionable, but Mr. Moore's best method would have been to arrange with p deputation to wait upon tho City, Council. This view was supported by Mr. Fitzgerald, nnd the Rev. Van Staveren. Mr. Moore voted alone in favour of his motion, every other member opposing it. ■