STREET OBSTRUCTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8119, 20 January 1890, Page 4

STREET OBSTRUCTION.

TO THE EDITOK.

Sir, —About a week ago several letters appeared in the Star respecting vehicles standing or loitering about the streets of the City, and I noticed that expressmen were, according to some correspondents, notable culprits. Allow me to point out that they are not the only ones, for one of the leading timber and hardware firms is in the habit of having a full-rigged reaper and binder standing in the road at the corner of Jetty and Vogel streets daily, thus making that exceedingly busy portion of the street a convenient advertising site. On several occasions upon turning the corner from Jetty into Vogel street I have nearly run into the said machine. It seems to me that there is one law for the poor and another for the rich in Dunedin, for not many months ago a friend of mine had occasion to repair to a blacksmith’s shop in a side street to get one of his horse’s shoes fastened on, and left his dray backed against the kerb on the opposite side of the street, where it was out of the way of all traffic. Moreover, the dray shafts were tipped up in the air. An officious constable happening to notice the dray came up, and, although he saw the driver was having his horse’s shoe fixed, summoned him for leaving his dray there, and the unfortunate man was mulcted in a fine and costs. The same constable would no doubt bark his shins against the above-mentioned reaper and binder, but never dream of summoning the head of a wealthy firm for obstructing the thoroughfare ; but when he gets a chance, woe betide A Poor Carter. Kew, January 17.