MORNINGTON BOROUGH.

Evening Star, Issue 8612, 4 September 1891, Page 2

MORNINGTON BOROUGH.

TO THE EDITOR. Sts, —There is an old adage “ It’s time to look the door when the steed is stolen,” and this is being very well illustrated in connection with our borough affairs generally, but especially in connection with a matter about which I would like to say something. Opposite the Presbyterian Church, Glen avenue,, there has existed for long enough a state of things hardly credible. An open, rut, I shonld.say over a foot deep, has been the receptacle for all manner of filth and debris, including the drainage from the manse and adjoining properties. Adjoining this the common roadway has been so rutted as' to be unfit for vehicle traffic. One poor man suffered near here, but happily we poor ratepayers .escaped theconseqoenoee, litigation relieving ns,, and shifting the responsibility on to the richer shareholders of the Tramway Company, I think I would r up cheerfully if the said company turn sued our Corporation, for undoubtedly the bad state of our road contributed materially to the accident, if, as many hold, it did not cause it. lam one of those who hold strongly that if the rails bad not been there the accident would have all the same. Well, sir, a Council meeting was held last night ; other roads dangerously bad were reported upon, and instructions given Jo have such repaired, and although no mention was made of the part to which 1 refer it is also being done up. There are still other places needing attention, where we have no tramway company to get blamed, and at these parts, notably Eglinton road footpath and near the English and Wesleyan Churches, there will be an accident some day. Might I then sound a warning note without alarming the worthy councillors too much. The sweets of litigation are not to be coveted, particularly when our municipal coffers are far from full. By having these dangerous places attended to before something happens myncy will be saved, and we will all the, more cheerfully pay our rates, which ought to be more equitably distributed for the general good. By inserting above yon will oblige,—l am, Resident. Dunedin, September 3.