STREET WATERING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11152, 29 December 1896, Page 6

STREET WATERING.

TO THE EDITOR* Sib, —Will you allow me, through the medium of your paper, to complain of the discomfort that the multitude of people that thronged our principal streets on Christmas eve were subjected to through the want of a little foresight and consideration on the part of the municipal authorities ? I rbfer to the cloud of dust that impregnated the atmosphere during the time the traffic was greatest, caused not by the wind, for it was a perfectly calm evening, but by the enormous amount of traffic, aggravated to a great extent by the ladies’ dresses in soiiio cases (which, by the way, might with as much grace, find certainly more comfort to themselves and others as well, be worn a little shorter). Now if the Council had put on one or two watering carts along Cashel, High and Colombo Streets, between six and seven o’clock, before the traffic commenced, the nuisance would have been avoided and the Council would have earned the gratitude of all those who had business in town, also tradespeople, who made a special display, and who must have sustained a lot of damage to goods through the dust fiend. From a health point of view also it is bad. It must be injurious to breathe into one’s lungs the dirt and filth from the roads. I would like to suggest that during the hot dry weather the streets should be watered on Saturday evenings up to seven o’clock. At present the carts are taken off much earlier. —I am, &c., PEG BONO PUBLICO.