Correspondence. Our Inspector of Nuisances.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3286, 19 August 1889, Page 2

Correspondence.

Our Inspector of Nuisances.

(To the Editor), Sir,—l think our city fathers must liavo stirred up their Inspector ofj Nuisances a bit lately, perhaps not before time. He paid a visit to my house lately, I was not at home. Perhaps a good job too or I might have told him his business which he evidently don't seem to know altogether. However, ho lelt mo a notice in whioh it read " Your fowl-house is too close to your dwelling, and must be kept free from manure. Now, sir, I must ask Mr Ingram to mind his o,yu business, and not dictate to me where I shall build my fowlhouse,' which is about forty feet from my back door, and always supplied with lime, I pride myself with keoping one of the cleanest premises in the Borough of Masterton, Perhaps Mr Inspector had been to see some of tho fever beds and cesspits before coming to my house, and he brought the stench with him, If not it is time he did, and not find fault where there is no occasion to do so whatever, and make himself officious, He must >knqvy that those who trample on dogs.tails are likely to get bitten. At all events he will find in Borough by-laws, section 3, olnuso 70, that water olosets must not be erected within ten feet of dwelling but nothing about distance of fowl houses. Of course not being a nuisance, it was left to people's good sense where to build them, in their parlor if they liked, and that is just the reason. I drop you these few lines to show that's where ho made the mistake, Now sir, if our inspector wou|d visit all tho premises in the Borough and soo where all the pipes from the sinks empty themselves, he would be doing sotno good, He would 6nd most of them putinto holes dug in the ground, and on a level with the water that is pumped to drink; others into the creeks which runs through tho centre of. the town. But these pipes aro so constructed as to evado detootion. Without the iUßnootion of each sink it is not easy to And out where they empty, as the fever bed is just covered over with earth, und in the creeks the pipe just under water, I may state for fact that suc!i has been tlio caso for years in this town, no wonder medical gentlemen havo to cnl! attention of the Council to bad drainage But after all thp,t ia only making a rod for their own back, for when tho fevers are ripe it would remind one of the farmer with his corn, They reap their harvest. Apologising for trespassing so much on your valuable space

1 (irii te, Ebwaud Dixon, Hall-street, Masterton,