Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2950, 14 July 1888, Page 2

Correspondence.

At'All,"

[To the Editor.] . Dm Sin.—Several years ago;; saw in capital letters oil a Govern- ' raeut map, "\Alfredton." I imagined t found my \ray. there somehow, and I thought I had\lived there for a nuin-i a -> ber otjwak-' ft even fancied' that r<"' 1 saw around mel a thriving district, peopled by ordinary white folk, who worked hard, and lived withm their incomes, I also \thought I saw old v homesteads, and hew . add handsome r oues being erected.; I believed that someone had told me that Alfredton had last year sent out . upwards of 700, > bales of pol, some thousands of sur-• plus sheep, and some cattle. ? Butl have under a delusion, or an'"'" exceptionally long dreaof. Your Pabiatua correspondent d) leered tbafe " Alfredton has no real exwtencfl,"andfS;' hp is ; positively - certaia there w: i iips-;; school,- store, hotel, no nothing at'aill"t|l Cruelv Monster-Laving gone so far|'H" why did he not tell us how to get a\, v.real existence" ?; He- did drop a « hiiit a school, store, hotel.'' Yes, ; if to have r a Bchool,;store, hotel, to abound with laud-sharlts ; in ; a ? small > .way,.. to buy sections of land 'with borrowed money, to live on the pros-' ' pecting value of. the reigning bush, tf) i be .well represented at the small debts and bankraptoy courts, and to bo loud Southed, instead of hard-working, be "real existence," theii, oh, Mr * Editor, do please ask your Pahiatua ' correspondent to leave us in our state ■ of non-existence. I am, etc., X NO NOIHIKOWAU, Alfredton, Oth. July, 1888.

Wanted a Morgue.

TO THE EDITOR.'* , ; ; -t > ■ Ijolievo there is a piece of ' land in Maaterton'that lias boon sot., aside for (ho purpose of a morgue. ' How is it that it has not occurred to • tho JBorough and County Councils, who are interested in it, to erect the' ■ necessary building ? The present oustom of dealing with bodies that are found dead is in many respects a most objectionable one, and it is a • puzzle to me that it lias been maintained so long. If the dead person has no friends, the body is not only taken to tho nearest centre of population, but ■'■■■■ to a house in that centre where the ■ greatest number of people aro to be found to visit Viz an hotel. Nobody can \ tell whether "the deceased died of an infectious malady or not, and the custom therefore is to expose the ■- greatest possible number to whatoyer danger thero may be. At (he same time a distinct loss is expeafcced by the publican, for few peojp would ■ willingly go near a corpse unless it be that of a friend or relative. They- • mauage these things better iivFrance, where a corpse is always from an hotel or other house, wierea ■ number of people aro to be found, with the greatest possiblo despatch, ill o object, being ' to ( provide against the risk of disease, and to avoid giving annoyance.«->■ I trust that the local authorities - will take an early opportunity to con* ' ; aider this matter, and that they will' take steps to provide proper means for dealing with the remains of the unfortunates who aro found dead, and to relieve the landlords of hotels wiio already pay heavy rates to Borough and County Council from |this.additional and unfair burden. " lam, ka., ■ 1 • Ratepayer ,