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unless the smoke causing the evil is " black smoke," it is not a nuisance
that can be dealt with summarily under that Act.
(2) Owners of private dwelling-houses should no longer be permitted
to discharge smoke from their chimneys in such quantity as to be a
nuisance.
If stronger measures for dealing with smoke nuisances become operative it
will greatly encourage an increased use of both gas and electricity for cooking
purposes. There can be no doubt that the substitution of electric motors for
steam engines in printing works and other places where power is used, has
considerably lessened the smoke evil.
HYGIENE OF HAIRDRESSERS' AND BARBERS' SHOPS.
The number of registered Hairdressers' establishments remains about the
same as in 1906, six new firms have been placed on the Register,.four have
been closed, and in three cases the names have been struck off for noncompliance
with the Regulations.
During the year information was received that the Governor of Cape Colony,
with the advice of the Executive Council, had approved the adoption of the
Regulations in use in the City of London as Regulations for the control of
Barbers' and Hairdressers' Saloons within the Borough of Kimberley.
It appears that Colonial Authorities are armed with more effectual powers
of insisting upon their requirements being carried out, than obtains in the
mother country, as one of the Regulations in force in the Borough of
Kimberley reads as under : —
" Any person contravening any of the above Regulations shall be
" liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds sterling, and in
" default of payment to imprisonment with or without hard labour for
" any period not exceeding three calendar months."
The action of a Colonial Authority in adopting the Regulations of the
Corporation must be considered as complimentary, and the inhabitants oi
Kimberley are to be congratulated upon the action of their representative
in making any breach of their Regulations a punishable offence.
It is much to be regretted that similar powers are not in operation here.