CORRESPONDENCE UNHAPPY HAMPSTEAD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9652, 8 July 1919, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE

UNHAPPY HAMPSTEAD.

(To THE EniTOll "GUABDIAN.")

Sir,—Might I be permitted to write a little regarding tlie pleasant conditions ot tiio progressive little-suburb of Ashourtou known as tiampstead. I purchased a iioiibe here some months ago slightly above- the average in quality compared with those in tho more .slum regions, having high-pres-sure water and electric light supplied from the Ashburton Borough locality. On arriving hero I found it necessary to remove several dray-loads of general rubbish which had accumulated during the six years which the house had been built.

The man who shifts small lots of rubbish in our locality would not shift it for me even though I paid any price in advance for same, so I, ; found it necessary to obtain the services of an outside contractor. 1 th'cii each week put Lhe rubbish out in ; tins. to discover that they only remove rubbish every two weeks; and any person who puts out more than two kerosene tins full each fortnight is liable! to an ; exhibition ol what I consider to be bad tenl--pei atid abuse from the waggoner, which "happened at my house this morning. And vet newcomers cannot,' by «my possible means find .a rule jnv law conducting ' the government" .of these 'parts. If it looks like rain the rubbish man doe 3 not, come on Monday, bub comes on Tuesday,..and. misses your tins. That means accumulated stench for a period of one month;; then when >ou put the two lots out together you get told oil". Vastly, different .ip 'the Borough, where they, .remove rubbish jn any quantity" for v paltry'sum. and give no cheek when reauestcd to remove a load. Then during the night it is impossible to sleep for a bellowing cow in a, quarter-acre section [with; no grass to ,amuse itself, or else, it smells the Hampstead-smells, or' wantage run for exercise. Anyhow,. it bujrht .''to be seen to at once. Then/one's property is completely run over' with- starving, stray dogs. '•Netting-wire".' will not keep them out; they can.; jump a. fence .like a deer, and irom their, tracks a garden this spring will be au impossibility. Stray fowls are" in multitudes; they can try over high fences like.birds, and dig nolcs in, your garden, like trenches, in search" of'food.'...Yes, this ia a great place, and any .person before purchasing here ought; to look.' well round, as I regret- ever having.left the Borough, and will sell at a sacrifice to get back again once more. . Other persons' coiiiplainta do not much concern me, with the exception' of one or two ladies that' are now_ in a high pitch of anger over their nice, clean, little girls getting' their heads full of those beasts of many legs while attending the 'Appy 'Ampstead School. I could go on for some,time witji,worse !■ complaints, but will, stop;' and trust others will have something! to say, and I hope those in authority will fix matters at an early dato, : , GREATER ASHBURTON.