BROOKLYN AND CITY ESTIMATES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 10

BROOKLYN AND CITY ESTIMATES

(To the Editor.) Sir —You inform us that there is a special meeting of the City Council next Tuesday afternoon.- It is generally understood that there will be a general tighteniug upon expenditure, except on necessary works, and that the needs o£ various suburbs will be stated by their representatives. Will you kindly tell me and others who represent Brooklyn on the City Council? Because it appears to me if we have one for this suburb, around Apuka street, Mitchell, and Karepa streets, he or- she is very much like Tom Brown's body. I i have been up here 16, years, and although the City Council - has never missed collecting the rates of Brooklyn for a much longer period than that, I fail to sea where thef have spent £5 or Gs on any improvements around here in that time. I am also informed that before the Great War money was voted by -some City Council of Wellington for a footpath up Apuka street. I wonder if Mr. Troup or Mr. .Wright will have a look around those pigerni holes of the distant past and-pu* that record in the museum! In a caie like this we have to make comparisons. Brooklyn does not begrudge any improvements either to the city or any other suburb, but we are entitled to a little consideration. We are the same to-day as in 1910—no footpaths. Since that time Karori, Miramar, and Khandallah have come in the fold of the city with miles of streets and footpaths. I am not saying anything of Northland and Kelburn.

"Salamanca Road" has had three letters in the Press, and to-night you inform us that it is to have attention almost immediately. How is it done? Are all the council's representatives around there, or did you do it? lam sure the residents around here would, buy two papers every night if (we could only get so ready a response to our appeals for a footpath to the top of the hill, where you can get t*e grandest view in Wellington. The burning question in Brooklyn is: "When, is the City Council going to finish these roads?" I hope next Tuesday Mr. Wright will get right into it and do the right thing for us all up here, remembering the women and children who are more put t» it than the men.—l am, etc., APUKA.