CIVIC NEEDS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 10

CIVIC NEEDS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Now that the 'municipal election is concluded it\is.to be hoped that the new council will give consideration to a scheme for the collection of refuse in the city. It is many years since we had a refuse collection campaign, with the result that citizens av^ burdened with an assortment of rubbish which.they arc unable to dispose of. Of "course thoso who are lacking in conscience will havo overcome' the difficulty by dumping their tin cans, etc., on any handy vacant section or the. Town Belt. Is there any necessity for this method when the unemployed could bo given the task of collecting and dumping this.refuse, at tile corporation rubbish tip. The most effective method of dealing with the rubbish problem would be to remove the restriction on articles which householders are debarred from placing in dust-bins. If these restrictions, were removed refuse would not 'accumulate.' Consideration might also be given to the manufacture of dust-bins by skilled men .from among the unemployed, the bins to be retailed to the poor section,of the community at 2>> or 39 each, the balance of the cost to be a charge on the rates. The primary, object of the council should be to maintain a clean and healthy' cityobtainable by enactment of rigid laws; therefore ratepayers should not quibble over the .cost involved in the upkeep of an efficient refuse collection system. There is another subject -which I should like to mention. This refers to tree-planting on the Town Belt. In this respect a, lot of good work has recently been done, and it is to be hoped that the new council will see. that tree-planting goes on merrily until all spare land is exhausted. Apart from 'the Town Belt, there is any amount of land on the side of roads, especially iv hill suburbs, which could be planted with native trees and shrubs. „• A - jarjje percentage of these banks and gullies,are of very small'dimensions, but if planted many an eyesore would be removed from the landscape. Now that most of the pioneering worktunnels, etc. —is completed, Wellington only requires the rough edges knocked off it to be classified as one ,of the most beautiful towns in the country.. This can be brought about by. 'planting trees arid shrub*,.1 preferably, native, wherever possible.—l am, etc., ~ ; SHAKE A LEG. .