NEGLECTED MARYHILL.

Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 11

NEGLECTED MARYHILL.

TO TBS EDITOR. Sir,**—l notice in recent letters to your paper that the residents of Eglinton are raising a storm, about a shoft stretch of footpath which is not asphalted, and so gives a certain amount of trouble in wet weather. They should take a walk to Mary hill and see what the local residents have to put up with before squeaking about such a detail. Except ob the arterial roads I cannot recall a single street with footpath both sides, and the footpaths in existence are so narrow and so overgrown by hedges that it is impossible Tor two persons to walk abreast. The usual procedure on dry days is for one to walk in the gutter or on the road; if too wet or too muddy we go home like Brown’s cows—one after another. (No relation to writer.) I'he hedge nuisance is a real one. and requires looking into. The less said of kerbing, channelling, and road surfaces the better; they arc a disgrace to a city which prides itself oh oeing the cleanest and best-kept in the dominion. What a pity the corporation canpot spare some portion, of the money we pay for rates to provide us with decent access to our homes!, Another’ matter that wants looking into is the service on the extension tramline, where an erratic “service” is maintained by a small rattle-trap of a car,, which, if patented, would bring in a inint of money as a liver oscillator; it does not quite shake the teeth out of one’s head, but comes precious near it For > the privilege of riding in this for a distance which cannot greatly exceed half a mile we pay one penny, and when we purchase a ticket at one shilling, expecting the usual concession of two extra rides in twelve for a penny section, we find that we get just twelve rides, and no concession. I think I see the the St. Clair or Anderson’s Bay residents. purchasing tickets under such conditions; there would bo a terrible noise raised if the corporation treated them to similar benevolence. The system of charging has always been one penny per section of approximately one mil*, hence the Maryhill trip should be a halfpenny one, or, at most, twenty trips for one shilling, the more so as there is no conductor to pay, one man doing the driving and fare-collecting. I join with your Eglinton correspondent in voicing the opinion that Mornington’s representative on the council is not looking after our interests, and when the time comes for an election we shall know what to do.—l am, etc., Wm. Brown. August 6.