Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3458, 13 March 1890, Page 2

Correspondence.

Pollution of the Waipoua.

(To the Editor.) Sib—Your olhenrao Mo roport of Ik County Council meeting on . Tuesday contains a slight inaccuracy, which, if not corrected, would bo apt to lull the people' into a senso 'of false i Security, under the belief that the County will.; do'lts duty anent' the river, Your report states that tho County " has taken up the question of. rivor pollution," whereas it should bavo read the County, has hung up She question, The Council appointed n committco to enquire into tho affair lake evidence, and report to tho next monthly . mtct'mgl ~'Meanwhile .the river is still being polluted, wiry day the condition of things is worse, and my soon the result will make itself -4 bourn .and felt. Of course no one' t ;ould .expeot; the Coiiniy?Council to / .rouble much over this,' a matter iffecting the town, not the country; iho members of the Council are for h most part of tho sheep, elieepy; -heir minds are occupied with quesions relating to their flocks, a euro or lung worm,,or f an 4teymeans of tilling of.far aoro importance than, a, question elating to tho health of 9>fcw men "■ iud women gathered in a town, It Si of couree.absnrbon IhVfato'ofit o expeot the gigantic intellect of a landyside or the mighty mind of a ketham, to descend to the consideraion of so small a thing as the health fihe'Borougli i if U diseasejjrcaks i ut and a few score townspeople die of twhat odds, it will not diminish the umber of their sheep or affect tha rico of wool, Why then trouble these Brritorial lords with it? Tho law of he land may indeed forbid the po Union of rivors and it may direct that v 'otinty Councils shall be responsiblo;w n giving effect to it,but what matter ? "«.. 'hu laws are made for townspeople, ouseabouts, and swaggers,and may be jfoly disregarded by wealthy "squatare" as mere cobwebs to be brushed aßide when they obstruct their paths. Put if we admit that it is unreasonable to expect consideration from the j- Voimly Council we cannot do so with • the Borough Council; the members of ' which are elected from amongst' our. 1 selves, and whose obief duty it ought to be to protect inevery way the health of'tlje t?»n, Tbo Borough (| .. f' '•■ ■■•. : ■ '-.liiJ

empowered to 'dehl ]wilh "ill: uattoh relating to tbp lioalth' of 'tho■■townspeople, Its clear duty ttm to have, at once putVstop to tho pollution of tlio liver,'to Mvo compelled those respo'neiblo to abate tLo miisauco thoy have Jaused, and to Lavo punished them as an example to other evil-doers, and so far as it has failed to do ! this has it failed in its duty te its constituents, ' ' : Wm, M, Easiiiope, . [We understand thnt the Committee of tho County Council visited tho VWaipoua,- Bivor yesterday, and after a careful inspection camo to the conclusion that its condition, from a sanitary point of view, was unsatisfactory, although the valor to not poisoned to such an extent thai fish could not live in it, and that immediate be tnken to prevent further pollution of the stream. Wo'scarceiy think

tho question is "hung up " to tho extent suggested bv Mr Easthope, Ed. W.D.