BROOKLYN COMPLAINS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 16

BROOKLYN COMPLAINS

WEEDS IN GARDEN PLOTS

Considerable discussion on the programme of work being carried out by the City Council in Brooklyn took place at the monthly meeting of the Brooklyn District Municipal Electors' Association last evening. Mr. O. Wannell said that the path connecting Bell Road and Dorking Road should be improved as it was in a "scandalous state." The path through the Nairn Street Reserve to Thompson Street was dangerous owing to the slippery nature of the ground. No reply had been received from the Citi Council to the numerous letters sent by the association, and no action had been taken; it was time that these matters were rectified. There were sufficient men employed in the . Nairn Street Reserve, he said, to cope with all the work of the district. Mr. W. Wigston said that compared with other suburbs Brooklyn was sadly neglected. Public plots elsewhere were kept neat and tidy while the weeds in the plots in Brooklyn were "as high as trees." All the beautifying effect that the gardens had in the district was lost through the untidy appearance of the weed's. The secretary, Mr. J. McArthur, said that it was the custom of the City Council when doing work at Brooklyn to commence a job. and then leave, it. ' ' , Mr. Wigston said that the introduction of the 40-hour week had placed a heavy load on the tram service because of the earlier starting hour for clerical workers. The service was not satisfactory as overcrowding was taking place in certain" tramcars. He considered that representations should be made to the tramways department. He thought that a tramcar leaving Brooklyn at 7.36 a.m.. and an additional one leaving the Midland Hotel for Brooklyn in the evening would ease the position. ' A- letter was received from the City Council advising that it would receive a deputation from the association, concerning the questions of the.Brooklyn Road and the snorts ground in Central Park, on Monday, December 7, at 8 P'lt" was decided that other matters requiring attention should, also be referred to by the deputation.