QUESTION OF RUBBISH BINS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 113, 15 May 1916, Page 4

QUESTION OF RUBBISH BINS.

..'., (To the Editor). ■,.,,,,. ( . nt Taihape newspaper is doing . a lot" of. good for the people of this town.'"'You'"are"elding what is right and fair to everybody and it te because a few of us see that, we have decided to ask your opinion about something that may be alright so 'far" K as the strict letter of the law goes, ; but which we all think was never meant to be put into practice against poor people so long as the law was obeyed in spirit and just as good as if we ar e made to spend money that in these times is too hard to get. There i is an Inspector of Nuisances going round, and we think that is quite right, but we are not so sure that he is doing his work with quite the ordinary brand of common sense. We have been called upon and threatened with court if we don't have a rubbish box of a certain size and pattern, made of iron, with a lid on. This box can only be made by an ironworker. It used to cost about six shillings but since the war it has gone up to twelve cr thirteen shillings. We can't afford that money; one of us is a wo* man who don't earn twelve or thirteen shillings in a whole week sometimes. We know- the. rubbish box should he iron or tin and should have a good lid and we don't object to that part, but while the war is on and cost of living is high and the price of the* pattern and size muck tin is our pockets why can't we be allowed to use a kerosene tin with a good* lid on. It would be just as good as anything else so long as it was big enough, anyway, if it wasn't big enough' we could use two. You know a man with £2 10s a week can't afford luxuries in muck tins any more than in what he eats, and we thinX: the Inspector ought to be satisfied with any good tin that is not according to his pattern, hut just as good for health purposes. We think he is (hanging more to the letter than the spirit about these muck tins. We want So know what you think, Mr. Editor.—Yours, etc., "ONE OF THE CROWD."