PROGRESSIVE BOROUGH

Grey River Argus, 3 August 1940, Page 2

PROGRESSIVE BOROUGH

[To the Editor.] Sir, —I should be pleased if you would allow me a small amount of your valuable space in order to support the remarks of “Fed Up” in your edition of yesterday. I am also a resident of Holland Settlement, and take a justifiable pride in the attractive and modern houses which have been made available for the lucky tenants, such as “Fed Up” and myself, who occupy them. I might point out that the various residents have made valiant efforts in laying out lawns and gardens and making the settlement a valuable addition to the borough. It is therefore, very disheartening to the residents to realise that the Borough Council adopts such an apathetic attitude regarding our roads and footpaths.

The footpaths, up to the present time, have not been formed or metalled. The roads, on a very few occasions, have had heaps of metal dumped indiscriminately on them. This has merely served to make them even more dangerous to cyclists and, in addition, a source of really hard work and inconvenience to women wheeling prams. Had the metal been at all evenly spread, it would have prevented the “potholes” from reappearing with such monotonous regularity. I suggest that the Mayor and Borough Councillors procure a barrow apiece and conduct a barrow procession in aid of the Patriotic Fund through Holland Settlement, at the same time getting first-hand information regarding the roads and footpaths. Certainly, no harm would be done to the roads. In conclusion, I should like to congratulate “Fed Up” on bringing this matter to the attention of residents and, I hope, the Borough Council. Thanking you for vour valuable space, I am, etc., “SUFFERER.”