CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1659, 9 January 1917, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

BOROUGH MATTERS

(To the Editor.)

Sir. —The Borough Council Ims called a special meeting especially to decide the weekly half holiday for the current year. When they have disposed of the above most important question, there is the trilling matter of water and drainage which, if not too previous, may merit a little consideration for the time when these * things will be needed. Health reports prove conclusively that the epidemics of diphtheria, etc., in this town ai’e due to bud drainage, and insufficient and impure water. When these questions have been submittqd previously, it has been said that the larger ratepayers have been the cause of the proposals falling through. If fhis is so, then those ratepayers who opposed the scheme are as much responsible for the deaths through the causes mentioned as the Germans are for the deaths of tfie women and children they murdered in Belgium. Now that we have an energetic Mayor who fears neither large or small ratepayers, I hope that something will soon bo initiated to make an alteration to what is at present a crying disgrace. The rain has come, and the accumulation of birds droppings, dust and microbes on the roofs during the past six weeks has been washed into the tanks. If the people and councillors could be wakened up to what they are drinking, there might be a chance of killing the Foxton microbe.—l am, etc., X-RAY.