OBSTRUCTIONS IN QUEEN STREET.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 15

OBSTRUCTIONS IN QUEEN STREET.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —May I protest through your paper against a practice which is becoming very prevalent in Queen Street During the recent wet weather I was forced off the footpath on to the road by the crowd gathered in front of a shop window where are exhibited all kinds of notices, dealing mostly, I believe,

with civic matters and the "monopolistic Press." I thought it was a breach of the by-laws to exhibit anything outside a shop which is likely to cause an obstruction, and I see that the City Council are going to prohibit sandwich men from parading Queen Street. Then why allow a shop front to be the means of blocking the footpath. Say, try walking up Queen Street some afternoon and you'll run a risk of getting "pinched" for not keeping to the left. But the proprietor of a shop is allowed to plaster the outside of his windows to the detriment of the pedestrian who is trying to observe the law.— l am, etc., J.C.S.