Marsh. We cannot believe that any ested liberality we owe it that we ratepayer will say that to abolish have any houses to live in; but the such a condition of things as that to majority of the ratepayers are not which they testify is an ' expensive landowners and it is a great boon to them that a new building area should luxury' that the municipality cannot, afford to indulge in. They say be developed. It is a mistake to say "Though it is difficult to prove that only the French extension would that the insanitary state of the Creek be benefited by the formation of the is the cause of any specific disease, it proposed botilevard; Mr. McBain cannot seriously be maintained that points out that by a further small the Yang King Pang, in its present outlay the new thoroughfare could be state, is not a source of ill-health connected with the Bubbling Well Road, and the British Extension. leading to actual disease. The exposure of decomposing filth to the With these few remarks we leave the open air in a creek, which is at no correspondence.to speak for itself. part wider than 48 feet and on an average is only about 39 feet wide: which is lined by public roads
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