IN THE PILLORY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22345, 8 March 1938, Page 8

IN THE PILLORY

TO THE EDIXOa Off THE PEESS. Sir, —I was very glad to read the remarks under the above heading about the disposal of rubbish. As a resident in Sumner I have noticed with much regret the complete disregard of other people's feelings that is shown by some of the Sunday visitors to our town. This afternoon I made a tour of the Esplanade, the favourite parking place for car-owners. Beside every fourth or fifth car I noticed the usual garbage dump, consisting of papers, cigarette or chocolate boxes, odd fragments of sandwiches, and the inevitable banana skins. One owner had evidently brought too large a lunch and had kindly left a large cardboard box with fragments behind. I have often thought what the owner of one of these rubbish-depositing cars would think if 50 Sumner residents motored to his residence, parked their cars, lunched, and then carefully deposited their rubbish on the path outside his front gate. I do not accuse any visitor of deliberately annoying those who live on the Esplanade, but suggest that all visitors might follow the picnic law of the Boy Scouts, "Leave nothing behind but your thanks." I am told that the Sumner Borough Council has a by-law, against the deposit of garbage in the streets, but apparently the council prefers banana skins to by-laws. Motoring has added many hew words to our common vocabulary, and I fear we must add a new word to express our feelings about those who care nothing for- street cleanliness. I suggest that the word I "dirt hog" would be appropriate foe

the car-owner who cares as little for decency as the road hog does for safety of others. —Yours, etc., SUMNER RESIDENT. Sumner, March 6, 1938.