OUR CITY STREETS.
TO THE EDITOB OP THIS EVENING POST. Sie — Tour correspondent, Mr. M'Keever, Bays the roads of the Empire City are worse than those of a bash township, and he is Blaggered at the condition of Willis and Manners streets. Poor unenlightened man, he naturally expected to find our streets in as good order as the far-famed easy chairs on which our City fathers sit in the solemnly painted and gilded Council Chamber. Possibly, too, he is not aware that our City Surveyor is at Wainuiomata, bo he cannot see that Willis and Mannersstreets are becoming something like a cross between a corduroy road and a graveyard. Wake up you somnolent city dignitaries, and cause those little graves to be filled up daily with nice small stones and sand, or we shall have to send you to the old country for a few lessons in street repairing. Surely you gentlemen, tho chosen of the people, are not aware of the effect on the morals these bad roads have ? Listen as the vehicles rattle, and bump, and dash over the hillocks and holeß, and you will hear many a deeply accentuated paraphrase of words found in the Holy Scriptures, and curses fly thick on every haud, not loud, but deep, and very oblong, as the unfortunate drivers drive their more unfortunate stag* gering horses. Bad roads then cause bad morals, and the moozy, muddling, peddling system permitted by the Council leaves everything half dono or not done at all. A new waterworks every six months, a bogus drainage scheme, rotten concrete kerbing, .botched, tinkered culverts, are fair specimens of "how they do it." But our muchenduring, long-suffering patchwork of footpaths on each side of our streets form a Bight never before witnessed in oity engineering. An earthquake is the thing wanted to bring the City Councillors to Bee anything that wants doing, and another to shake them enough to get it done. I am, &0., B. £. Evenden.
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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 7, 10 January 1881, Page 3
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328OUR CITY STREETS. Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 7, 10 January 1881, Page 3
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