AWAKE, NEW PLYMOUTH!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 170, 24 January 1912, Page 4

AWAKE, NEW PLYMOUTH!

To the Editor. Sir,—Already your campaign against local "sleeping sickness" is taking effect, and at least some tar is being applied. Also I noticed a gang at work on Marsland Hill, some rubbish fires about, and the water cart hard at work before breakfast. There are many signs, however, that the microbe of "taihoa" is still busy. Many local butchers arc above reproach in the matter of handling and distributing meat, but there are others. I despatched a messenger the other day to buy meat for dinner. It came wrapped in a disgraceful scrap of unclean newspaper. This is against the law, a«d a particularly mean method of breaking .it. A type of meat cart not unknown in this town should be burnt at once. It consists of a small open meat pit on wheels. The driver stands at. the back of this pit, looking down on the meat. It is a pestilent method. J1 other citizens will voice their reasonable complaints and 'keep voicing them until they arc heard. Ne W Plymouth mav overcome its sleeping sickness. It is usual to blame the climate of this town for every lack of enterprise. There is nothing wrong with the climate, and it is only necessary to read the ages on the tombstones in the cemetery to prove this fact. Septuagenarians and octagenarians are common in Taranaki.—T am, etc -> WHITE PAPER.