NEGLECTED GUTTERS.

Auckland Star, Issue 66, 19 March 1900, Page 2

NEGLECTED GUTTERS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Noticing in your issue of the 14th Mr A. P. Friend's intended motion to the Parnell Borough Council against that Council encouraging the j bubonic plague in their midst by al- ) lowing the inhabitants to throw I their neighbours' dead cats, dogs aud I the voracious rodent (odoriferous 1 now) out into the cold, cold street, , and also the advisability of doingl away with "the long parks" which have become a by-word, an eye-sore and a menace to their little world. These | "long parks," or rather gutters, nofc | only grow grass and weeds, but they become refuge cities, centres of '' abominations, where filth of every : description is allowed to accumulate untouched. There it festers,' thro'wj ing off deadly poisons, whose aim is ■ fever and ambition plague. Sir, to be just Parnell is not the only borough in this city of cities playingwith the hydra-headed monster dij sease. Grey Lynn with its "long parks" comes a good second. The Grey Lynn side of Ponsonby Road is a standing disgrace to the Council. The gutter is one long green park, in which are to be seen eye sores of many descriptions. The gutters are j almost- level with the pavement. As j the drains and culvert are often J blocked up when a shower comes the pavements are flooded and sometimes the shopkeeper's stores too. May Mr Friend's motion meet with the hearty support of every Auckland borough councillor and action follow words. —Yours, etc.,

ALFRED GREGORY,