Latimer Square
[ Sir,—This morning T listened to a distressed vicar of ■I St. John’s Church explaining ftp his congregation how the proposed oneway Madras Street would take away part ' of the church grounds; that i some of the handsome, irret, placeable tailings .would be done away with, to be superi'seded by concrete; that traffic >! lights would be placed almost (opposite the present gate!
leading to the church door;: that ears would not be able to stop at the gates to'set down or pick up wedding parties, etc., and would have to park further away from the church —all this, and the loss of some of Latimer Square, too. Surely this official vandalism called progress should not be allowed to cohtiiiue'. In fact, according to an act of 1877quoted by Cr P. J. Skellerlip at a recent council meeting, cannot continue. Why not put the road in question' under the Square, as suggested by Cr Skellerup?—Yours, etc., (Mrs) OLIVE M. L. BURDEKIN March 1, 1970. .
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32235, 2 March 1970, Page 12
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