CITY SIDE CHANNELS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9761, 25 June 1892, Page 6

CITY SIDE CHANNELS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sia,—Knowing you to be interested in educational and sanitary matters, I send you the “ latest notion ” for draining swampy places, as adopted by the City Council- A few months since a man was engaged for a considerable time on that portion of Oxford terrace and district lying between Barbadoes street bridge and the Union boatsheda in cutting down the road adjacent to the aide channels to a depth of about three inches. The work evidently not being satisfactorily done, two men have recently completed the job by lowering the roadway yet another three inches, making the side channel six inches above the road level. The new idea is evidently this: to make the water run under the concrete channels, not in them, that being the old-fashioned way. Whether it will work I do not know, not being sufficiently well up in engineering formula; but this I do know, that that portion of Oxford terrace between Queen street and the boat-sheds, for several months in the year, is a veritable bog, and at present there is a stagnant pool of water several chains long, about two feet wide, and three or four inches deep. Judging from the expression on the faces of those who hare to pass this place, they are inwardly cursing the man who bosses the job, while I (having to walk through twice a day) can speak feelingly, and being a moral voung man, outwardly bless him.— I am, &c„ THE LAM PLIGHTS E.