PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16812, 19 April 1920, Page 7

PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE.

i *0 T!U: EDITOK OK "TttE PRESS. ,, J ! Sir, —I have been endeavouring toi ! keep tab of the various schemes, enterprises, and reforms which our energetic! Mayor, medico, and M.P., has—since: taking office—placed before the public, \ and although sonic of the promised re- \ forms may," by this time, show signs of ' age. and "even neglect, 1 hone that the following, gathered from my reading or ; "The Press, - ' may bo of sufficient in-j . terest to merit publication, as an indi-1 ' cation of our general progress : — j Canal to Christchurch; overhead to underground power and lighting cables: street control of motor vehicles, pedes- , trians, perambulators, and baby carriages; proper lighting of "right-of-ways": widening of street at Bank of Xe'w Zealand corner: improved street formation ; improved street cleaning: comprehensive drainage scheme : en- ■ largement of Municipal Tepid Baths;' municipal quarry; municipal milk supply and delivery: municipal general market; municipal theatre and city, hall: municipal cold stores; municipal! crematorium : municipal band music ; j municipal coal (or lignito) mine; cheap: supply of firewood: cheap supply of fish r and soap; comprehensive water supply: scheme; city abattoir improvement;! smoke abatement': compulsory chimney j cleaning; improved police, protection : | improved inspection and regulation of j I hotels ; lighting of river banks; care of \ soldiers' widows and children; proper | pension scheme for disabled soldiers: | control of licensed hawkers; municipal afforestation ; regulation of_ refreshment rooms; compulsory sterilisation of j barbers' shops; deepening of the river; Avon ; public washhouses; destruction ! of rats; care of stray and homeless dogs; prohibition of exposure of meat I in shop windows; proper house num.-j I berinc: carrying gooils on tram lines; j ! heating of schools; free hot meals for] j school children: heating of shops; improved sea-bathing regulations; Govern- 1 ment subsidised sea beach patrols; dis-; infection of bank notes; entertaining j distinguished visitors; fruit, poultry, I and bee farms for returned soldiers; j sun b:itlis for convalescent soldiers; war : memorial; annual conference _ot ; Mayors; improved tram services ; im- j proved ferry service; cleaner railway; carriages: concrete roads: main nrte-1 rial highways; completion of Main Trunk Lines; hvdro-elcetrie dovolopmßnt; housing scheme for coal-miners : mimiripal liousc-builtling scheme; municipal garden suburbs; claim for share of war trophies; special homo for helpless imbeciles; temporary city hall; en-j tertaining the Prince; adequate supply of flour and sugar; Dominion orchestra; Hall of Memories, etc., etc. To all of which I devoutly say: "For what we are to receive, may the Lord make us trulv thankful." —Yours, etc., BETTER DAYS.