SEATOUN AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 6

SEATOUN AFFAIRS

SOME NEGLECTED STREETS

Mr. P. Myers was chairman of tho annual meeting of the Seatoun and Bays Progressive Association, held "at Seatonn on Wednesday. The annual report and balance-sheet were adopted, showing thp work done by the association in the interest of the district. Election of officers was as 'follows :— Mr. H. P. Bawson, president; vice-pre-sidents, Messrs. W. L. Palmer, W. H. Hewitt, W. Murie, Phillips-Turner, P. Myers, and Captain Hall; committee, Captain Chndley, Messrs. G. Brady, G. D. Ayson, B. Anderson, W. L J. Blythe, C. Wyatt, W. I* liavelle, L.-X. Doherty, W. A. Parton, P. V. Saundereon; secretary, Mr. J. C. Morrison; auditor, Mr. W. H. Lavelle.

.The chairman in his review referred to the great assistance the association had received from Mr. Bawson, and the thanks "due to him for placing a me ;t----ing-room at its disposal. The association had undoubtedly done excellent work, said Mr. Myers, bat it could not achieve all it desired all at once. \ But during the past two or three years the City Council had spent a fair amount of money in the locality. The council said it intended to do a little year by year in Seatoun.

Later, in the course of the meeting, a resident said it was aU very well to talk about what had been done, but the (act was there were parts of Seatonn where the conditions of the streets were so bad that the children could not go dryshod to school in bad weather, "and people there are living in slush and mud."

Other speakers spoko in a similar strain, pointing to open drains, also 'c streets that had not had a thing done to them since they were first formed years ago under the old Miramar Burough regime.

Mr. W. A. Parton, speaking as a resident and a former City Councillor, said the conditions described were not overdrawn. In fact, they were deplorable, for o\«r one-third of the houses in Seatoun were still without footpath ap proaehes or even a decent road. Some parts of Ludlam streets and Pearce streets, he said, were "wicked to thiuk about. They are a legacy from tho Miramar Borough. Titles were givnn and houses were built," he adde*d, "before the streets were formed. But that cannot be done now under the new law. Still, these streets are in a bad way, and they have never been anything else. It is high time that thsy receive attention. "

The situation of the post office for Soatoun is in Brandon street, about two minutes' walk from the tram terminus. It was suggested to the meeting that it should be removed to a more central position. This was agreed to, but the^meeting was informed that t'.ic existing lease had some fifteen months to run, and the, post office would- consider the matter of site when that term had expired. But. the point was raise-1 that while the tram terminus .was the central point for residents of Seatoun, was it so convenient for dwellers on the hills and along the bays? This gave Mr. Perston, as a hill dweller, an opportunity to suggest that the post office should be approached with a view to the restoration of the afternoon mail delivery at tho post office. There are two deliverie« of mail a day now—for the immediate vindnity of the post of flee, but only one elsewhere, with the result that the over-the-counter delivery had been abolished, and there was undue delay in the receipt of mail, as compared with conditions existing years ago. There was "no disposition to ask for the withdrawal of the afternoon mail delivery shown by the meeting.

The meeting received with satisfaction the announcement that the City Council had obtained a site for ne«r bathing sheds at Seatoun, at the angjg of Hector and Munro streets.