BOROUGH SANITATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10583, 14 March 1912, Page 5

BOROUGH SANITATION

A SERIOUS ALLEGATION. REPUDIATED BY'SANITARY SPECTOR. Our local contemporary published a somewhat sensational article last ev3ning, dealing with the sanitation of Masterton. Categorical statements were made, on the authority of certain unnamed plumbers, which wouM lead one to suppose that Masterton was in a disgraceful sanitary condition. A representative of the Age interviewed the Town "Clerk and tho Sanitary Inspector last night upon the subject* Mr Archer said-he knew nothing of the alleged disturbing conditions, and no complaints had reachn him officially. He intended interviewing the Sanitary Inspector upon th;< subject. •Mr J. Cairns, the Sanitary Inspector, stated that he had read the article, and he had no hesitation in saying that the statements contained .In it "we're absolutely untrue. There was not the slightest justification for the allegations made. No complaints had been made to him as Inspector, and he would defy any person to say thai Masterton was in an insanitary condition. He had spoken to one of the master plumbers, and that tradesmanwas indignant at the reflection upon the plumbers of the town, upon the town itself, and-upon the Borough Council as a body. He considered that the whole trouble had been caused since the Plumbers' Union came inb existence. Some of the members of this body, he considered, had bsr, their heads. Mr Cairns questioned whether there was any truth in any of the statements which had bet-i made, and he declined to take any notice of them in the meantime. He was prepared to say that Masterto.i would compare more than favourably with other townships in the Dominion in regard to its sanitary condition. The fact that there had been no outbreaks of disease or epidemics, showed that the town was in a very healthy condition.