CITY COUNCIL AND KELBURN PARADE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 80, 5 April 1926, Page 6

CITY COUNCIL AND KELBURN PARADE

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Bad as the dust nuisance is in not a few of our city streets, it cannot be disputed that the nuisance is at its very worst in Kclburn Parade, especially in the lower part o£ it (between Salamanca road and Glasgow street). For some years past the attention of the council has been directed to the matter, but the nuisance has become steadily and rapidly worse. Any citizen who wishes to secure palpable evidence of incompetent road construction should visit the' Parade. Every few months "spoil" wholly unsiiitod for road or, street construction is laid on Kelburn 1 Parade. '.This but increases the dust nuisance. Thb only relicf —and it is a temporary one—enjoyed by residents is when a heavy rnin wash en the material used in top-dressing the streets into the streets on a lower level. A few days later the dust from the accumulated debris on the lower levels is swept back through the Parade in almost ceaseless- dust clouds.

Twice during (lie past year .petitions signed by every ratepayer in the Parade were forwarded to the City Council, which "officially" assured the petitioners that "something" would be done at the earliest possible moment. The council or its officials seem however, so preoccupied with the claims (for good roads) of the joyriders who frequent the highways on the outskirts of the city, that they appear to be wholly indifferent to the interests and domestic, comfort of much-miff crinff 'ratepayers in the heart of the city. At present Kclb'.ira Parade is being top-dressed with the usual "wholly unsuitable kind of top-dressing, most of which will—must inevitably—be washed to lower lnvels or into the harbour when the first heavy rain falls. —I am, etc.,

HUGH MACKENZIE, 42 Kelburn Parade.