INSANITARY STREETS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 347, 22 March 1911, Page 5

INSANITARY STREETS.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, —I think that it is high time that those in authority in this go-ahead town should take steps to have streets cleaned, or at least the gutters. For weeks and months all sorts of filth and rubbish has been accumulating in them, and the odour from it is by no means pleasant. All along Rora street one can see large quantities of fruit peelings, banana skins, and heaps of melon rinds. In front of one fruit shop and eating house are to be seen enough horse droppings and remains of fruit, paper, etc., to fill a good sized cart, and the smell from it is quite offensive. I consider that the shopkeepers themselves are the worst offenders, as a great many of them sweep all the dirt, etc., from their shops and verandahs into the gutters, instead of burning it as they could do easily, thu3 helping to keep things a bit sweeter. Goodness knows what the back yards must be like. I also saw some Maori women squatting down by a shop and with them was a child about three years old, with no underclothing on and its poor little legs a mass of scabs, which it had been scratching till they were raw. Now, sir, all these things, combined with the great shortness of good water, cannot help the people of this town to remain healthy, and it behoves them to make a move and see that something is done to have a cleaning up and a disinfection, ocherwise the town may be visited with an outbreak of fever, like they had in Hamilton some years ago before they got the drainage, etc. I hope some abler pen than mine will take this matter up and that something will be done soon.— I am, etc., OBSERVER.