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now being made by the Mill-owners and Manufacturers 

 Association to abate the evils of pollution. They give 

 advice, counsel, instruction as to the best methods of 

 carrying on any factory or business innocuously, 

 devise, construct, and, if need be, erect the best 

 possible or known apparatus for so doing, and deserve 

 support from all quarters. At the late Fisheries and 

 Health Exhibitions they received richly-deserved 

 honours, and we trust that they may go from strength 

 to strength, and add good work to good work done, 

 until their influence is paramount in the land, and the 

 manufacturer shall have such confidence in this most 

 worthy Association that he will turn to it in any case 

 of doubt, of difficulty, or uncertainty of procedure, in 

 the same manner as the navigator looks for aid to 

 his chronometer, charts and compass. 



It is therefore with great pleasure that we insert the 

 following particulars of the Association : 



"The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act 1876" 

 enacts, " That any person who causes, or knowingly 

 permits, any noxious or polluting liquid proceeding 

 from any factory or manufacturing process to fall or 

 flow or to be carried into any stream, shall be deemed 

 to have committed an offence against that Act ; " and 

 recent legal decisions clearly indicate the intention 

 promptly to enforce the strict observance of its pro- 

 visions. It has hence become an imperative necessity 

 with many persons to consider how, under these 

 conditions, it will be possible for them to continue to 

 carry on their business. 



In the great majority of instances, neither the 

 owner nor the occupier knows the proper means for, 

 or the cost of, preventing or " rendering harmless " 



