During this month, with a view to pre vent as far as possible disease and illness in the Township, the Board contracted for the removal of all household sweepings and refuse, provided the inhabitants placed their refuse boxes, when full, on the edge of the footpath for the contract or to empty. This contract is still in force ; but finding the sanitory condition of the District was becoming daily of more importance, the Board, in Novem ber, applied to the Provincial Govern ment for powers to enforce certain sani tory measures that were necessary for the Township, and forwarded draft clauses of what were required, the which clauses were passed by the Provincial Govern ment under the title of the Municipal Police Act Amendment Act, 1871 ; but after the necessary bye-laws under the Act had been passed by the Thames District Boaids, the General Govern ment refused to sanction the Bill itself, ont he grounds that the Super intendent did not himself possess the poweis he purposed to give to the District Boards under the Bill, con sequently the Bill is inoperative. In March, a letter from Dr Lethbridge to the Board notified to the members that owing to the want of diainage near Amy street, several cases of low fever of a typhoid form had occurred ; on receipt of which letter an immediate special meet ing was called, and such steps taken to prevent the spread of disease as your Board was able to accomplish. A copy of the doctor’s letter was forwarded the same day to the Superintendent of Auck land, but, further than acknowledging its receipt, no notice was taken of it. In November also the Board, seeing the urgent want of a recreation ground for the Thames people, invited the Kauae ranga and Parawai Boards to join with it in obtaining a suitable spot, and a grant from the Provincial Government to secure one. A Committee of the three Boards personalty visited all the places likely to be suitable, selecting one near Ivopn Point. A grant of £IOOO was voted by the Pro vincial Government for its purchase, but from an interview had very lately with the Government Secretary and Mr Mackie, the obtaining that spot is not very proba ble for some time, and a partial offer was made of one in the Otanui Block in its stead. 