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district intimation and notice have been served and the nuisance abated
thereon, with two exceptions necessitating recourse to legal proceedings.
No smoke nuisance presented itself under the Highways and
Locomotives Act.
Canal Boats Acts and Regulations.
Under the Canal Boats Acts and Regulations 25 boats have been
examined. Of these 16 were registered and 9 non-registered. All the
registered canal boats, with one exception, were found in fair condition
and in compliance with the Acts and Regulations. In the case of one
registered canal boat the name on boat was not sufficiently legible. An
intimation to the owner was immediately complied with.
No contravention of the Acts was discovered on any of the nonregistered
barges.
Demolitions.
Three shops, Nos. 728, 730, 732, Old Ford Road, have been
demolished and the site cleared for the erection of six cottages.
Unsound Food.
The following unsound foods were dealt with during the year.—
Twelve cases and eleven half cases of eggs.
Twenty-five tins of blown condensed milk.
One bushel of apples.
One box of skate wings.
One box of plaice.
One sack of cocoanuts.
One case of rabbits.
Each of these parcels of food were condemned and destroyed.
One hundred and six 21b. boxes and 141bs. of loose figs unfit for
food and exposed for sale in a public market place were seized and a
condemnation order obtained and the figs destroyed, followed by the
issuing of a summons against the vendor.
At the police court hearing the defendant was committed for trial at
Sessions.