OUR NAMELESS ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 160, 7 July 1909, Page 3

OUR NAMELESS ROADS.

(To the-Editor;) "■"■ >;<-• .- .: behalf of a; ' numerous ■ and Tiard-wprking' body, of meni' may I beg yoiir powerful' help in a cause -which. stands really of assistance.--It is a matter of common -knowledge that a carrier or expressman has a life- full of hardships, and it should be the endeavour ofr those in authority to alleviate; rather' than-to ;thes<v disabilities'. Your assistance is- -request-; ed to "urge upon the various municipal "councils and" road boards, the' absolute "necessity. for displaying' the' names "of roads and "streets, arid ; for the " premises'. To take. two instances_ from localities" Which" are the worst" offenders: two loads of furniture from a city auction room-have to be cd,' one to Sir Dash; Bath-street, "Parnell, the other to. Sirs" Blank, -Jkiarystreet, Mount. Eden. - , If €he sale "has been completed at the usual.time, probably five o'clock- 'before; the carts are loaded, and upon a dark, perhaps raihyj. winter's night, the search rendered ' heoessary : by the vagueness of: the addresses is not fair to purchasers, vendors, goods, horses or men: Custom has rendered us callous to .the taunts having reference to" the roadless North, but it is to that jwe sEall not hayb to suiffer much longer' in' silence over Auckland's nameless roads and numberless am> etc.,--- ---„;. ;, ,' ALEX. '■ .■"Expressman.-