FITNESS WEEK AND DUST NUISANCE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 127, 22 February 1939, Page 10

FITNESS WEEK AND DUST NUISANCE

Householders Protest With Placards Residents of the southern part of Waiwhetu Road, Lower Hutt, are holding a demonstration during Fitness Week that is not part of the official programme. They are having a placard demonstration as a protest against the recent decision of the Lower Hutt BoTough Council not to proceed this season with the sealing of Waiwhetu Road. Alternate houses display a placard bearing a slogan relative to the dust nuisance and its effect ou physical fitness. A spokesman for the residents informed “The Dominion” that the continuous nasal and throat ailments suffered by the children in this locality through constant, dust irritation bad prompted the residents to this action. The mayor of Lower Hutt, Mr. J. W. Andrews, stated last night that the road was one of 79 in the borough unsealed, and did not carry anything like the heaviest traffic of the 70. Almost half of it had been sealed and in the area fronted by the unsealed half there hud been few occupied houses up till six months ago. The council bad a four-year plan, one year of which had passed, to tar-seal all borough roads, and each district would be treated.fairly in the order in which the work was done. There hud been £3500 spent on Waiwhetu Road in the past three years and it would cost mow than £4OOO to seal the portion now unsealed.