AnnualReport-1932 — Page 574

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Table IX.

NUISANCES.

NUMBER REPORTED AND ACTION TAKEN, 1932.

Outstanding (31st December, 1931) 17 No. of nuisances reported 6,385 No. of nuisances reported in which no action taken 145 No. of first letters sent 19,183 No. of first letters withdrawn 11 Compliance on first letters 18,329 No. of legal notices sent sections 29 and 30 6,449 No. of legal notices withdrawn 16 No. of legal notices modified section 31 4 No. of legal notices time extended section 31 8 Compliance on legal notices 6,036 No. of summonses applied for section 32 121 No. of summonses refused 6 No. of summonses withdrawn 1 No. of cases discharged 1 No. of cases abandoned through defendant absconding 1 No. of Magistrate's order section 33 53 Compliance after Magistrate's order (including compliance after summonses) 235 Fines $1,530 No. of re-summonses for failure to comply section 35 24 Fines $165 Compliance after re-summonses 5 No. of further re-summonses applied for 1 Compliance after further re-summonses 1 Fines $50 Nuisances abated by the Sanitary Department section 35 ... Expenses of abating $ ... Outstanding 24,704 24,939 24,939