TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1910, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND STREETS. UNFAVOURABLY CRITICISED. ("by telegraph— special to the post.] AUCKLAND, This Day. Th* unsfttiisiaotoiry condition of the j streets of Auckland has lately been occasioning a great deal of criticism. < Visitors from the South and elsewhere express their disgust in no measured terms, <wid comparisons distinctly unfavourable to the Queen City are often made betweeni our roughly-metalled etr-eets and the fi-ne wooden pavements of Wellington. In the asphalted surface of Queen-street, we, of course, have something that is second to nothing else in the Dominion, but our other main ■ thoroughfares are the reverse of creditable. Several of the city councillors have joined in, the chorus of criticism, and one of them at a meeting of Lhe council last week, suggested that a loan of a quarter of a million should be raised for the purpose of putting the stneets into proper condition. Another j councillor has since given notice to move that a special committee be set up to , take ■expert evfdenc_ upon t'ht question.