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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3756, 10 March 1891, Page 2

An Instructive letter.

(Manawatu Daily Standard.) Amongst the numerous applications to the Borough Council at its last meeting for the position of Overseer of W 01 "^ 8 ) s°-\ waß 9£ e *F om a gentleman residing in this town, the application being accompanied by the following:— "My Testimony.— I was eduoated at the Royal Naval and Slug's College, and was, by my father, intended for the Royal Navy, but, circumstances preventing, my nomination was cancelled, and in a few years after J entered a London bank. In the meantime I had become acquainted with all kinds of common adulterations, and their tests, and was perfectly familiar with the Act of Parliament of 1875 for the suppression of all wholesale adulterations by making it a criminal offence. As regards the superintendence of pipe laying for sanitary purposes, etc, my knort ledge is principally theoretical, albeit I should very readily detect a mistake in the geometric line, if one were being perpetrated within my observation. The classic rectilinear alexandrine which, driven from poetry, appears to have taken refuge in the stercorary trenches of the great Parisian city, is familiar to me : as

also is the drainage of mines where pumps are applied on the utmost vast scalfi. Of course the public health depends much upon its sanitary measures. I have attended lectures upon "Mephist" at school, and have wandered oyer the great drains of Paris, with Victor Hugo for my guide, but I have never learned so much of the value of disinfectants as I acquired during my short stay in " windy" Wellington, where it blew little, or " swampy" Napier, when it blew less, and that seaward, At both places I have tried coffee, charcoal, etc., to absorb the effluvia. I have fumigated my rooms with acetate of lead and nitric acid, but to little purpose, and then 1 have wished to. inspect the drains, swamps, and cesspools, and report upon their sanitary confUtiqn tQ their respective councils Fiatjustitia n«ft eoehtm ! lam uow applying l ° yo u » ma y * hope With success ?" ,