A “ CLEAN UP.”
LOCAL BODIES TO BE ASKED TO • ■ ACT. During the course of his speech to a gathering of residents of Miramar, the Minister of Public Health (tho Hon. G. AY. Russell) said that there was a lot of hard common sense in tho old idea of our grandmothers that an annual spring cleaning was essential. He referred to the clean-up that had taken place in New Plymouth before the epidemic broke out, and lie wished that e\ cry town had adopted a similar line of action. The residents of New Plymouth were requested on a certain day some months ago to gather together all their unwanted accumulations without consideration of what those accumulations were. Forty tons of rubbish were .thus gathered and carted to the destructor in one day, and the. result
uas a cleaner and healthier town. The Health Department would shortly issue a circular to all public bodies’of Now Zealand asking that similar “cleanups” should be organised.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 17 March 1919, Page 3
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