LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2490, 17 June 1915, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

IN DEFENCE OF WANGANUI. Sir,—Mr. Grey's letter under the above heading in your issuo of June 11 exactly expresses my own sentiments so far as the people ol Wanganui as a whole are concerned. My comment on the lute Wanganui riot was never intended to imply criticism of the Wanganui people as it whole. 1 have not the slightest reason to suppose that they are anything else but thoroughly true-hearted, loyal, and patriotic, and nothing that t wrote can bo construed to apply to any of them but those who damaged the property of business people, who arc equally loyal with the most estimable people of.the town. It. is only fair that the wid."- application which Air. Grey ascribes to my letter should not pass without a disclaimer from lue, and 1 shall bo glad, therefore, if you will grant the insertion of this short letter. —1 am. etc., GEO it HE EE.NWICK. Duncdin, June 11. SEATOUN'S MODERN (?) DRAINAGE. Sir,—Will you kindly ventilate through your columns what the Miramar Borough apparently seems hopeless to ventilate through its drain pipes, viz., its defective sewage system. Formerly the district managed with the primitive sanitary system that most new districts have to put up with for a time. Now it has a quite modern drainage system, which is a most serious menace to the public health of Seatoun. Tho sewage, through some technical fault which I don't profess to understand, is now ejected into tho main street. Both olfactory and ocular demonstration is furnished almost' daily of this. On Monday the stench was, positively deadly, from the tunnel to the tramway terminus, and sewage was flowing down the street to tho terminus. This is not the first- tim? within the past few days that the sewage has been so discharged into the streets. Unfortunately it is ejected at a tramway waiting shed, where people take the cars and alight from them, and it brings up at the terminus. Children play in the putrid gutter, and sail sticks and paper, boats in the sewage. The Health Department cannot surely know that such things can be. The Miramar Council appears to 'be studiously ignorant of the fact. If tile Mayor lived near he could not ignore this terrible danger to public health.— 1 am, etc.. RESIDENT.