MASTER PAINTERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 8

MASTER PAINTERS

TENANTS AND GERM-INFECTED' [ HOUSES. At 11. meeting of the Wellington Master Painters' Association many interesting subjects relating to the trade were discussed. .AmoiiK'.t others wis the inspection of houses. From a. health po'nt of view-, some employers thought it was aftlTnst the interests of the trade generally .to bo called upon, to renovate and paper places which have been inhabited by persons who may have been cuft'ering from infections diseases, probably contracted just before leaving a house, and not reported to the Health Department. It was urged that if an inspector had to issue a certificate showins flint a house is fit. for habitation and free from germs, etc... before the landlord can let the same to a. tenant. H would nrotect the tradesmen as well as tie public. Some of the speakers -also referral <o bug-infested places. Tliey considered it was not n'eht that tenant after tenant should bo allowed to occupy a buir-in IVsted place and transfer in their furniture nnd belongings the pest from nine* \o nlace. wherever thev go. Yet tins, it was sfated, is proliably happening, in many instances, without tenants' knowledge, until the daniace is done, and another landlord lias the pest brought to his property. An interesting p.-ioer was mad by Mr. L. Tinirey on the technical education of nnprentices, and a verv hearty votn of thanks was accorded him for tlw able manner in which he ti'»atoil (he i-.ubioot.