“The filthiest village in the world," is the description given by the Tibe correspondent of the London Daily Mail of Phari-Jong, where the Everest expedition proposes to sojourn pending its attempt to climb the peak. The inhabitants live in 200 hovels. They never wash, and they throw their rubbish in front of their houses, which, formerly above the railway, are now buried in mounds of filth, through which passages must be cut to reach the road. Tn many places these mounds are above the roofs.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4676, 19 March 1924, Page 1
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