Sanitary Troubles.
Auckland, Tuesday. . The City Council is threatened with- trouble over the nightsoil question. Being debarred from depositing matter at Port Chevalier, the contractor has been Bending, to Avbndalo and Mount Albert, but the Road Hoards of those respective districts are taking steps to stop the practice. The Avoiidale Board threaten to prosecute land owners who allow the offensive mktter to be deposited on their land. Mr Devore, Mayor of Auckland, who just'returned from an Australian tour, has collected a lot of information on the subject of the disposal of nightsoil, etc., which maybe very useful if the Council have to alter the existing arrangements, '
Illegal Municipal Expenditure.
" : Napier Tuesday.' /The.R, M.,gave judgment today in- the case of Cr Fitzroy v. Hastings Borough"Council in which plaiutiff Bought recovery of eight guineas to Borough funds being cost of portrait of ex-Mayor Wellwood, .paid by the Counil and disallowed by the Auditor Generall'' The defendant corporation claimed the portrait was Council Chamber furniture. The Magistrate' gavo judgment for plaintiff with costs,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3047, 6 November 1888, Page 2
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170Sanitary Troubles. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3047, 6 November 1888, Page 2
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