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Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1919, Page 5

During tlie course of his speech to a gathering of residents t-f Miramar lately the Minister for Public Health, the Hon. G. \V. Russell, said that there was a lot of hard corumonsense in the old idea of our grandmothers that an annual spring cleaning was essential. He referred to the clean-up that had taken place in New Plymouth before the epidemic broke out, and he wished that every town had adopted a similar line of action. The residents of New Plymouth were requested on a certain day some months ago to gatlu.r together all their unwanted aecurai.iatioiis without consideration of what those accumulations were. Forty tons of rubbish were thus gathered and carted to the destructo- iu one day, and the result was a cleaner and healthier town The Health Department would shorty issue a circular to all public bodies of New Zealand, asking that similar "eleau-ujjs" should b9-Qrjjaoiswi, "~'"V