CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 247, 14 December 1900, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by o&jiospondeDts.] —-. —- —« PUBLIC NUISANCE, TO TFK KDIiCVR gin,—Would ycu kir.dly allow me through your co'um .s to diuw attention to the intolora'.'li Rtadll which is daily occurring on tlw Barrett lload, This smell cemss from the row abbatoirs (so calbd) which iiavs bojn crocked in tbe latest styl* far tho si mghtsring of diswa<d caitltf, th« venture boing " privaio et.terpi i.e." The aHnk from tho;e mw werks far tho lint 3 or 4 days has, at, tim -s, b.cn sickening, but What. o'se'lWl «.j ?;<p;cj; wbsti" tha operation* n< .*} (vow'njonco. are, in such a cruds stole,. I do not kaov&if we can nghdy bl-.ma prmtta Oafcorpriso in , this oise, for the, Gjvg l nment are 06rtainly creating arjd fisSeringa traffic in disssssd cattle so that never mind the stink, eweot sms-ll tho climate is the inotrto, Works like thrs? to be car.-lad' on so as not iv. rp ( , lß n «r. j >•., c ,. r ,'>' ! ■'■!■■ ■ ii'.! " "lv o •'. ln:« than '•'•'" 'i.'-'t '■ ■I 1 ' 1 , '--' f tii- Ojvu'.im rv. jw-i Jt'.attiiutJ to pio3»cd with ibu > is'aaoping ouS of disacee in this way, why should they i:ofc put up the works themselves? Up-io-oVe works, with 'concrete fipva atsd wslla to slayghter-rc-oti}, it dfyg-.tf.?', r.v.i)" Jratiisg Jroopas, boa-; mil!, a ylu:i piitk, o'.c, with a chimtwy clack of mfHoioiit height to take »11 furnas r.cd bad smells right aw«y. If it p*yu private parties to do this certainly tho Govern urnt cat. ; raake i; (.ay,and wo should havo (hi i satisfaction of knowing tho work was taing das in a proper and sinitary marjtirr, As things arg now, a wqide,n ; building with wooden flooro, and a digeat.or without any convenience, , whora the naup has to be run over the ground and the uuat dried in the sun, the stink must got woree as time goes i on and tho place gote moie saturated with blood, etc. Then again the hide?, horns and legs of these diseasod haunts aro being Bent away to other distriols to be. used, allowing, there ia no disease in the hides, burely, it is to be found in ' the bones of tho legs and in the horns. } As far as J can see ths whole system as ; it is preeenfc is ag rotten as the beasts , that are being killed, ajid as to stamp- ; ing out tho disease, no doubt we should do it, if we keep on long enough, but it \ will not bo until the whole of our herds aro gono. This stamping out cfdisoise j is no hole in the breakwater business, , but a business which, if it gets known ' in England, will ruin our trade.—l am, etc.,

J. A. Maisby. Now Plymouth, 12th Deo?mber.