NUISANCES IN THE BOROUGH.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1074, 17 August 1883, Page 2

NUISANCES IN THE BOROUGH.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — At the last meeting of the Borough Council, the Inspector of Nuisances reported that he had found the Borough in a satisfactory state as regards cleanliness. Councillors however, complained of the nuisance of leaking verandahs, and the Mayor, for I don’t know the how mnnyth time, had another slap at the old Bank of New Zealand premises. I should like to know if the Nuisance Inspector is short-sighted, or not strong as regards scent, as a general rule, or is it out of deference or fear of the Worshipful, the owner of the Central Hotel premises that no complaint is made about the long standing sloppy and disease engendering nuisances along two sides of the of the said premises—to wit: the slops and greasy outpouring of the cook house—the washing-day refuse—the liquid from the stables, all of which leave conspicuous (racks across the footpath, making it always impossible to walk in comfort or at times with safety, on account of the greasy state of the footpath. The ill-omened mill-pomly groencss showing on a portion of the footpath, arising from the thoroughly sodden state of the ground, can scarcely be evidence of either cleanliness or hoalthfnlness ; while the two or three yards breadth of this mixed drainage, which lodges on the roadway extending from the kerbing and along the whole length of the Dorset street frontage—well, it is neither clean nor nice. Stable refuse too, piled up on the Leicester-strect frontage is also objectionable to sight, besides offensive to other organs. Tlien as to encroachments, I could name some which are dangerous as well ns unsightly, besides that which proves such a source of irritation to his late worshipful the Mayor. I would just like to ask—with these other conspicuous nuisances unnamed, and apparently unnoticed—what can he the state of either sight or smell in the Inspector, or the good taste of the Majrorj in liarping* about one particular

encroachment, with such an objectionable series of nuisances, if not at his own door, at least coming from bis own property. The fault may, however, lay on the shoulders of the Inspector, and it may or may not be respect for some one prominent among the “powers that be” which leads to what looks like discreet reticence.—l am, Sir, yours, Aug. 16. A Ratepayer.