BROKEN GLASS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 10 February 1926, Page 11

BROKEN GLASS

A MOTOBIST'S COMPLAINT.

Broken glass can be found every day on city streets (writes "A Motorist"). On bitumen roads the glass can be seen in many parts; but not until it is often too late to avoid running over it. Another practice much too common is for the milk roundsmen to drop, quite accidentally, milk bottles, and frequently, this motorist states, he has stopped his car and endeavoured to pick up the pieces of broken glass, but it requires a broom and shovel to do the brushing up properly. He suggests, that the milk roundsmen should carry a small broom and shovel and t a tin, and that whenever a bottle smashes on the roadway the roundsman should clear the broken glass away immediately. It would not be good policy to sweep the glass into the gutter, on account of children running along the gutters. Complaint is also made that carriers and Corporation employees, when carting rubbish, including twisted hoop iron, tin, and old wood with nails projecting, frequently allow rubbish to drop on to the roau, and motor tires suffer accordingly.