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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4463, 6 July 1893, Page 2

We have frequently pointed that when Mr Ingram, out veteran In> speotor of Nuiganoen, was too outspoken, the Borough Council hi past times wan wont to. snub him, tell him his nose wan too long or offer to re« dtice his salary, Mr Ingram like a sensible man used to lake the bint and became like .the London parrot which could not talk but was a' beg gar to think. Eacently Mr Ingram was invited bj the Borough Council to speak and lie has spokeo with a vengeance, The centre of the town is supposed to be in a filthy condition, Cesspits, polluted: wells, night soil and other refuse are emptied bodily into • .-be little oreek which runs by tlt« feat Office, Mcßrafflgir^a

lively schedule,of abominations which <">g!it not td : be toWted for a moraent, hut whicl. ]mvc become chronic in the Borough.. There is just one jay of hope now and ibis is that the Borough Council has nppoi'ntpd a Committee to report upon a water supply and drainage, if the Committee does its duty it will recommend both. _lf .on the other hand it follows ■ho example of many pmvious Committees and shelves the difficulty instead of facing it, we may inform it that a number of leading residents in the town intend to tako up the work the Borough Connoil ought to do, ascertain tho cost of an efficient drainage and water supply scheme-and place full particulars of the same before the ratepayers; These Wing residents, to whom we refcr, would gladly set the Bpipngl, Council take utp j thcqiießtion.butiftheßoMUghCouncil evades its responsibilities as a Board of Health and its duties to the ratepayers, they will take aotion and even go so far as to put new mm hvo the Council pledged to oirryouta satisfactory water ■ and" drainage scheme. The presentconditi in of the town is disgraceful, and the Central Bnaid of H-aith ought to interfere and insist upon some reasonable sanitary improvements being promptly efl'cted.