COBDEN DRAWBACKS

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1945, Page 8

COBDEN DRAWBACKS

(To the Editor.) Sir—At a recent meeting of the Borough Council, we were informed by the Mayor that a certain portion of the municipality was reserved for business premises to suit the residents of the Holland Settlement and the lower end of Cobden and mat this should suffice for the meantime. Such assurance, however, should be taken, it would appear, with a grain of salt. The conveniences meantime for residents of the settlement and lower Cobden are a disgrace—no postal facilities, and no groceries delivery with the exception of once a week. To see young and old people struggling home from tneir shopping daily, sometimes in pouring rain, would show the necessity of something being done immediately to rectify this state of affairs. The tyre and petrol restrictions are not likelv to be removed in the ■ near future, and the businessmen seem to to use that excuse to the limit. This should not be treated a as penal settlement, but should be made to commemorate the great Statesman after whom the Holland Settlement Is named. I am etc., “PROGRESS”