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OFFENSIVE TRADES.
Only one of these is carried on in your district, namely, fat.boiling in
the Northern Ward.
No serious complaint was made during the year. At times the
smells were far from pleasant. There is every hope that within a very
short time, owing to the building going on in the neighbourhood of
these premises, that the keeping of pigs will be impossible, and fat.
boiling as now carried on will soon cease.
During the year proceedings were taken against persons for improperly
keeping pigs, and your Sanitary Officers have to keep a sharp look.out
for such people, and rightly, for the next step would be the establishment
of some form of fat.boiling premises. The keeping of pigs is the
primary business, and the fat.boiling a means to that end.
REMOVAL OF HOUSE REFUSE.
Systematic removal of house refuse takes place twice a week by the
Council's workmen, under the supervision of a foreman, who is
responsible to the Surveyor.
In the main streets where shops predominate, a tri.weekly collection
is effected.
No serious complaints have been made, and the work, I believe, has
been well and efficiently performed.
In previous years I referred to the dirty and inadequate receptacles
used by householders for the storage of refuse, and suggested the provision
of proper dust bins.
Bye.laws are now in operation, providing for a galvanised or other
suitable metal receptacle for dust, and notices have been distributed to
every householder to that effect.
Among the poorer inhabitants, compliance with the Bye.laws has not
been made, but gradually the change will come about, and already there
is an improvement.
The Destructor, so long talked of and needed, is not yet provided, but
probably will be within this year.
The lighting and scavenging of our roads throughout the year has been
invariably good and efficient.
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