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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1297, 15 March 1883, Page 2

At the Borough Council meeting last night the Inspector of Nuisances complained that there was a person living in Derby-street who refused to pay the nightsoil contractor, and who persistently, in defiance of repeated cautions, buried the excrement in his garden, j Mr FakaM said he could not swear there was any nuisance existing, and asked how he should act ’ After the bye-law relating to the question had been perused the Councillors came to the decision that they were powerJ less. Accordingly it was decided that the byedaw should be altered, so that so obiec- . tfonable a practice might be stopped. We 1 agree with the Council so far, but wc think they should have gone further, and have 5 tabled a motion to have the whole of the bye-laws revised. Many of them are pal- • pably unworkable and time after time this has seen shown to be a fact when cases have been brought into Court. It would have been r far better, in our opinion, if the Council would appoint a Committee to revise the byelaws from the beginning to the end.