WRONGS OF NORTHLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1926, Page 3

WRONGS OF NORTHLAND

(To the Editor.) Sir,—"Mother o£ Ten" says she is "fed up." She lias cause to be even if she did not live in Northland. The lady says the picturesque figure of the lamplighter in Garden road is an instance of what the hill suburb has thriven on. Ido not know about thriving, but apparently it is what we pay rates for. Sell our tunnell! We could not give.it away! Why not turn it to some.use? It would make an ideal parking place or garage for the bus; that is, if the tunnel is still standing when the bus arrives. Where is the bus? Some while ago we were informed through' the medium of your journal that the council was going to build its'own bus bodies. Have any been built? We who have had the experience of a council-built tunnel feel suspicious of those bodies. . Possibly the council has found that it cannot build bys bodies as cheaply nor as well as private enterprise, and so have not gone any further in the matter. Or perhaps it has decided our magnificent roads are not suitable for a bus. It would be interesting lo hear just how far the council has gone and what the cost is to date. In the meantime we walk, and only those who have had the experience know -what Northland road is like on a wet day. ; I think your lady correspondent is a little hard on the council with regard to our roads. There is such a lot to be done. Marcel waves in Thorndon quay and so on take up such a lot of time that Northland cannot hope for any attention. The spoil from the tunnel had to go. somewhere. AVhy not on the roade? The council was not toiknow the wind would blow it away. ; .■. ■. ; The council is rightly anxious that people should live in the: suburbs in preference to the city, but the encouragement given to Northland is such that many have . ■ TURNED IT IN. 3rd May.