THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1909 SANITATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 191, 16 September 1909, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1909 SANITATION.

ONE of the most urgent needs of a growing and progressive town, after nightsoil disposal, is a proper and convenient place where trade, and other refuse may be disposed of. Te Kuiti with its rapidly growing population is suffering from that need, the consequence being that parts of the township area, which should be beauty spots, have become absolute eyesores through the deposit of various forms of unsightly matters. In some cases it is not only an eyesore, but is positively dangerous to the children of the community, owing to the deposit of old iron, tins and other rubbish being dumped on to the bank of the river in the vicinity of the school. Such matter is a great temptation to children of a seafaring or maritime race, who see the making of a boat in anything that can be made to float, if only for a few minutes. Needless to say, these improvised boats find their way to the bottom of the river eventually, and children' who use the river for bathing purposes—and in this they should be encouraged—probably get cut feet, ani thus run the danger of blood poisoning. These are only some of the many reasons why a proper refuse dump is urgently required. People cannot go on indefinitely burying refuse on their sections, as by that method they are only planting the seed < of disease, the fruit of which we have to gather later on. Any fair sized depression in the ground a reasonable distance away from dwellings, might be used for this purpose, and afterwards covered with a good deposit of clean earth, in which case the ground would not be available for a couple of ycais for building purposes. Needless to say the want of a depot for this purpose makes the keeping of the town clean, a harder matter than it should be.