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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4278, 18 November 1892, Page 2

Ohe of our oompositorslies illin bed, and we have every reason to believe that the pause of his sickness is tho smell of the'impure gas,'whiph the Borough Council is cow supplying to burgesses. There: are. many rumours afloat as to the way in which the local gaß works are managed or mismanaged, spipe of them of suoh a nature that wis shpuld feel Considerable hesitation in repeating them, At any rate one thing is perfectly plain the town is getting bad gas, and 1 tho sooner the Borough Council discovers the cause of the impurity and removes it the better it .will be health of the peoplo, We faii tq any reagonable exjSuse'oan be exiendep for the; imrjuire ; ias, which ■ is now supplied to burgesses.: ; There must be somewhere,! 'Whatever:inay be the cause, the Borough Council fa responsible for it,- There aw stenolies

enough in. the town already, without bad being added ao the list, and it is about time: the % fathers be: stirred themselves. An expert who once.vjatted the.woike stated that a man and a boy ougUt:to: be able to manage, them.: At the present time we are assured that three men, judg'ng by thegas supplied, fail to manage them. The present obviouß mismansgemeut almost BHcgests the expediency of convening an indignation meeting of consumers, oral least that 8 deputation of leading busineas men should wa.t on the Council 'to urge it to take prompt aotion to remedy the nuisance.