AUCKLAND'S UNTIDINESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 163, 10 July 1907, Page 8

AUCKLAND'S UNTIDINESS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—At a recent City Council meeting, when proposed improvements were being discussed, the Mayor was reported to have said that they intended' making Auckland the most beautiful city in the world. A mpst laudable ambition surely, yet to ordinary citizens there seems a most desirable way of beginning the process, viz., by first making Auckland the cleanest city in the world. To say nothing of the drainage system, which, of course, is to come very soon, the surface of things should have early attention. Numerous visitors have truly said Auckland is the most untidy city they knew of. Residents can only endorse the statement, for the street litter of paper and all kinds of rubbish is constantly in evidence. There can be no municipal system for regularly cleaning and tidying the streets at short intervals. The main thoroughfares are bad enough, while some of the branch streets, with their unkerbed and broken footpaths and weed and rubbish-filled waterways are just disgraceful. The Mayor can very easily verify the statement by making a fewtours of inspection in his motor car. It is for the Council to devise some' means of securing the co-operation of householders in the way of prevention or attending to their own frontages, and receiving boxes might b3 conveniently placed. for depositing paper and scraps usually thrown on footpaths or dropped into front gardens. If children were trained to tidy habits at home they would not be such frequent offenders in public.—l am, etc., OBSERVER.