SAFE STREET CROSSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 10

SAFE STREET CROSSING

(To the Editor.)

Sir—l think when Mr. Semple tries to solve his traffic/problems, he would do well first of all to have a few safety zones built in various parts ot the city. It has always semed rather a puzzle to me that in the city of Auckland, for at least ten years, there have been quite a sufficiency of safety zones, whereas in Wellington,/ up to date, there is not a single one. It is rather a marvel to me that so far. since I returned , from England a year ago, there has not yet been a fatality,at the foot of Bowen Street. ■ A glorious opportunity was lost when the new. property was put up at the left of the War Memorial, for street widening. In any case, I am sure that if the City of London thinks safety zones.are a great asset the same must apply to Wellington. ' To cross over the road in London to. a person of ordinary intelligence, is like child's; play, owing ,to the frequency of safety zones. Again, I find since returning that cyclists are a great difficulty. In London I have seen the police hold up cyclists and give them a reprimand for darting about the place.—l am, etc.,

LIVERPOOLITE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Recently two letters appeared in your journal in reference to. the dirty condition of a Wellington school. On behalf of the Newtown School Committee I beg to state that the above-mentioned school is not the one referred to by your correspondents. Although the oldest school in Welling-

ton (built in 1880) I venture to say that it is. the cleanest-kept school in the Dominion. Thf School Committee is blessed with a model caretaker who spends all his lime in the three buildings which comprise the Newtown School. During the compulsory recess he has scrubbed out all the floor space and corridors, the . same being thoroughly disinfected; the boards are practically as white as the proverbial snow. The committee is assured of a new building in the near future, an.i sincerely trusts the Government will, hasten on the work as the present structure is thoroughly out of date and falling to pieces.—l am, etc., A. r. BITHNETTE. Hon. Secretary.