RONGOTAI TERRACE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 130, 28 November 1929, Page 10

RONGOTAI TERRACE

The lack of a proper footpath in Kongo* tai terrace is the subject of complaint by a correspondent, "Tenderfeet," who states that the approach to the terrace from the tram has been made so steep and uneven that it is now impossible to get a baby's pram up, while elderly people and children find it really dangerous. Tha walk from the tram to the top end of the terrace, writes the correspondent, has* never been harder on pedestrians than it is now—just clay with sharp stones protruding, and in wet weather not usable on account of its slipperiness. Several female residents, according to "Tenderfeet," make use of the gutters for walking, but the gutters, too, ar,g becoming covered with loose, sharp shingle. . While realise ing that a lot of money has been spent on the road in improvements, the correspondent makes a plea for residents who do not own cars, but who pay their rates and taxes, and urges the point that Rongotai ten-ace is the nearest street to the bitumen works as another reason for dwellers feeling so «lisappointed at being passed over.