A NUISANCE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2219, 6 April 1881, Page 2

A NUISANCE.

We are glad to notice that the City Council are bestirring themselves in a matter to which wo made reference a short time back, viz., the suppression of the nuisance caused to respectable people by disorderly houses. The by-law committee have, we are informed, drafted a by-law which will enable the City Council officials to deal with what has now become a most intolerable nuisance. While this is so, wo hope they have borne in mind that the actual delinquents are really those holders of property who knowingly and for the sake of gain let their houses to known bad characters. We had, only a day or two ago, an instance in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, whore a landlord had let a house, which to ordinary tenants would bo worth only some 10s or 15s per week, to known bad characters for £2 per week. This is the class of persons whom, we hops, the by-law will reach. It is now only when the greed of such individuals overcomes their discretion that the public become aware of the fact that in their midst there exist people ostensibly respectable who make a living indirectly out of this infamous traffic. Once let it be known that they and all such will be held up to public scorn and reprobation through the medium of the by-law, and we shall find the nuisance now so justly complained of abated.