DIRTY STREETS.
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Some time ago an Auckland Professor had' the temerity to speak unkindly of our streets (?) .Had he known more about physiological processes he would have kept silent, seeing that our city was in a stato of gestation. Nature, in the form of plentiful raius, assisted by man's art, in the shape of an impecunious Council, are doing much to assist what the Professor evidently foresaw. People of Auckland, wait in patient endurance, and ere long your once beautiful city shall become '"The Venice of the South," and there will be no need for electric cars on the lower levels, for patriotic capitalists .will provide flat-bottomed punts, and the song of the gondolier will make bright with cheerful music the desolate track from Queen-street to Freeman's Bay, which will doubtless then become a desirable place of residence.—l am, etc.,
H. D. ORI-WILL.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 11 July 1899, Page 2
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