BRIGHTENING THE CITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 147, 23 June 1937, Page 10

BRIGHTENING THE CITY

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Everyone will endorse the remarks contained in the letter of "Peter Simple" re brightening up the city. Unfortunately, the railway, smoke nuisance is no incentive to people to repaint their houses only to, find in a few short weeks they look as grimy as ever. To watch the, volumes of thick smoke rising from the railway yards and floating like a black pall, drenching the city and suburbs with soot in its journey of destruction, as far as Kelburn and Wadestown heights, makes one marvel why such a thing should be tolerated when- there is a remedy in smokeless fuel and which would be less costly than the cleaning and repainting of the Governmental buildings alone through its damage. As evidence of its ruinous effects on property, one has only to look at tho condition of the marble on our Parliamentary Buildings, and, ; ere many months have passed, the pristine beauty of our new station will be obliterated in a like manner. This smoke is a positive heartbreak to housewives, who find their curtains and furnishings ruined and washing on the line blackened and spotted with this relentless nuisance. The electrification of the lines will rectify the trouble so far as travellers are concerned, but the shunting we shall have with us always, being ever present it is the greater culprit. With our Exhibition in view, it is high time for a general clean-up.—l am, etc., TOPSY.