DUST COMPLAINED OF

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 17, 14 October 1933, Page 6

DUST COMPLAINED OF

Bolton Street Residents Residents of Bolton Street are complaining that the street has been neglected by the City Council. They say that while almost every other street in the city and many in the suburbs have been either paved or surface-sealed, Bolton Street, an important mid-city highway leading from Wellington Terrace to Kelburn lias been left as a primitive macadamised road. Owing to its grade the macadam ou Bolton Street is easily disturbed, and in dry windy weather the dust rises in clouds and invades the properties on either side. Residents maintain that if the council could surface The Terrace, between Ghuznee Street and Mount Street, and Thompson Street —a very steep street — it could also treat Bolton Street. The council’s point of view is, firstly, the difficulty in securing a rough enough finish to make a permanent surface reasonably safe on such a grade; and, secondly, that the job would cost in the vicinity of £llOO, and there is no provision for the work on the estimates for the current year.

Twelve months ago the residents petitioned the council to proceed with the paving of this street, but nothing has been done in the matter.