CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 November 1913, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

NO DANGER (?) (To the Editor} Sir,—We feel under deep obligations to you for trying to satisfy us, or rather the purchasers of articles with suspicious antecedents, that these were not disposed of without having been thoroughly disinfected. May we venture, however, to ask for some further and more precise information? Does your excellent authority speak of all the articles which have been stowed~away ever since the local fever camp, or of those only which were brought out here after use by small-pox patients at Tauranga? Why was not the public assured of their disinfection before the sale ? Why were articles brought from Tauranga to Te Puke for sale instead of being disposed of on the spot ? Why were they advertised in the Tauranga paper on Monday evening and sold in Te Puke on Tuesday afternoon, before the advertisement had time for local circulation, and. why was the advertisement ' omitted from your columns ? When and by whom were they disinfected, and by which duly qualified medical man were they inspected? Was the Health Officer notified of the Intended sale, and did it receive his official consent? Was there any necessity for such a sale at alll, especially by public auction ? We shall be more than grateful to receive straightforward and satisfactory answers to these questions from the Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and we venture to think that the public (especially the purchasers of these things) have a right to insist on something more definite than the statement of an unauthorite t'-ve "Excellent 'Authority." We are, etc., ;

J. HOBBS, Vicar St. John's Church. D. HASTINGS YOUNG, M.8., M.S., Edin. [Perhaps our informant will reply to the additional points raised by our correspondent. No information was vouchsafed us as to why the articles were sold in.Te Puke and not in Tauranga, or why attention was not drawn to the sale through ; our columns. We were simply assured that everything had been thoroughly disinfected, and that there was not the slightest need for alarm. - Ed. Times.]