A GROWING NUISANCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 9 October 1913, Page 4

A GROWING NUISANCE.

To the Editor

Sir,—As a visitor to your town on more than one occasion, I have been struck, and 1 may say considerably surprised, at the manner in which the four corners in the business centre have been blocked, especially by Maoris, in an important town such as Hawera has become, it is high time that, steps snouici be taken to abate what has become a very great nuisance. The longer this matter is left, the harder it willl be to enforce a compliance with rules regulating the traffic on footways. It is with no intention of being unduly harsh with the Native race that I bring this question betore the municipal authorities, but because I have noticed that European women and children are frequently compelled to take the road (where all sorts of dangers lurk in the. shape of motor-cars, etc.) in order to get along. TTien the Maoris are in the habit of eating fruit and throwing the refuse about iootways, to the detriment of passers-by, and this is a practice that wants stamping out. 1 am afraid Europeans are also guilty of this practice. One might say a good deal on this subject, but I will leave it to the Cpmmon-<sense of rthose in authority to take action, and thus do away with the necessity for further correspondence.—l am, etc.,

VISITOR