County Sanitary Mattery

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 122, 31 October 1901, Page 3

County Sanitary Mattery

Afc tbe County Council meeting yesterday tbe committee appointed to report on tbe sanitation of the VVaimate suburbs stated that they had examined two slaughter-bouses and had found them in good order. As regards the proposed water supply, in the face of what Dr. Sym'S bad said} the committee urged upon tbe council the advisability of pointing dtlt to tbe residents of the suburbs, the advantage of their joining any suitable water' scheme that may be initiated by the Waiolate and farther, the committee suggested that all insanitary wells should be closed, and tanks substituted. Tbe committee recommended that Meisrs STftlkec and Studbolme should define the boundary of the suburbs, and that sanitary by-laws should be drafted by the chairman and solioitor and submitted to the council. The chairman and the deck should See tbe solicitor and ascertain if the boroiigh and the suburbs could combine to appoint a joint inspector for the borough and suburbs, and also to ascertain upon wlidfc tettai the aervioe now in ioroe in the borough could be utilised by the residents of the BdtmrbsV The cVJmniittoe also recommended; that Mr C. Hobbs tbould be »pDoioU.d In-

spector of Nuisances for the county] at a t alary of £lO. Messrs "vyalker and Stadbolme'. bad defined the district and this j was agreed to by', the meeting. 1 A long discussion took place on j the question of sanitation, during* which it was pointed out that if cess-pits wore forbidden, some alternative would have to be provided. Finally, on the motion of Messrs Rhodes and Ross, Messrs Douglas, Walker and Studholme were appointed a committee to draw up sanitary by-laws and to deal with sanitary matters generally. Mr C. Hobbs was appointed County Health Officer at a salary of £l6 per year. A ratepayer at St. Andrews wrote that a neighbour's pig-styes were a great 'nuisance. Mr Hobbs is to be instructed to look into this matter, and into th; throwing of rubbish on the road near the St. Andrews ■sW-ion.