DANGEROUS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— l would ask you to allow one to say, or rather write, a few words with reference to the existence of a nuisance in our midst which may lead to very unpleasant and unfortunate results. I allude to the state of the right of way at the back of Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett’s in Custom Housestreet. You there find that crates filled with hay and wooden boxes are lying indiscriminately about the yard, so that any person, after lighting his pipe, if he is a smokist, might inadvertently throw the lighted match away and ignite the inflammable matter. I should like to ask what the Borough Council officer whose duty it is to attend to these matters, is doing! Let anyone go and look at the place'and the accumulated rubbish around the premises, and I think whoever chooses to take this trouble will agree with me that attention should be called to the existence of the danger. I write this letter simply for the purpose of a warning and to prevent, if possible, the terrible effects of another conflagration suoh as we witnessed about this time last year. It is an old adage and a very true one “ A stitch in time saves nine.”—Yours, etc., Ratepayer.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1239, 4 January 1883, Page 2
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212DANGEROUS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1239, 4 January 1883, Page 2
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