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Evening Star, Issue 15905, 10 September 1915, Page 4

Is that large section of the public which

makes St. Clair its St. Clair and place of enjoyment and the People. recreation, and, iuci-

dentally, is a source of much welcome revenue to the tramways department, to have no consideration shown to its simple wants during the coming summer? We are afraid, unless those who in the past have interested themselves in the question again take it up and push it energetically and consistently, that disappointment, vexation, and pardonable irritation will, not impossibly, bo the lot of many citizens whose almost daily habit it is,, during the warm, and | long days that are ahead, to visit St. Clair. And this would be a pity when the demands of the public are so reasonable and could, given a little more enterprise, be satisfied at small cost within a month or six weeks at most. What is wanted at .St. Clair is not a pavilion or a large hall or tea rooms or elaborate buildings of any description. The public have never asked for these, and the majority of them were as indignant as.they were amused at that monument to municipal incompetence that was providentially destroyed some months ago. What the public do want, and what has . been ■ repeatedly asked for, is provision for shelter, ete._, that would save women and children from getting wet, or hurrying back to town whenever there is a temporary downpour. It is not necessary to j labor this aspect of the question. What I is asked for is known to every councillor. The only point that matters is : Are the public again to wait and see the months slip by and nothing done? Some weeks 'since a deputation from the Otago Expansion League and the committee of the St. Clair Improvement Association waited on the council to urge the necessity of doing something.- The deputation . were courteously received, His Worship the Mayor gave the delegates the impression that the realisation of their hopes was the only subject that was never out of his waking thoughts, that the council also were earnestly considering it, and that all of them were keeping it steadily in View. This, as we have said, was some weeksago, and beyond the fact that the council,-we'are informed, are involved in litigation with the late lessee of the property; which is hardly a suffiexcuse . for inaction, nothing has' been done towards putting this pressing .and .'important work in hand. We trust that pleasure-seekers and others will not have to wait until next winter before anything in the shape of conveniences and shelter from summer storms are ereoted for the use' of the general public.