CORRESPONDENCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 12 January 1920, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

(To the .Editor.,

Sir, —A, s a visitor ait different times to your much admired and eulogised" ' city, may I be permitted f o express my muid regarding a matter of impout- • ance to all the t aH*payers therein, : Taking a walk over the Trafai’gair street bridge across the river Mahal, and i proceeding to Grove sheet, I observed •a marked change in the bank thereof b v L ho river’s encroachment. Adjoining the OolUngwood street bridge is a ‘ portion of land, so I aim led to under stand, which has suffered a serious; loss, : also the properties of private individuals have been greatly reduced. Now nothing of a practical nature has resent. Iv been done to stop this increasing ' <iW'ti ii(tio n of property. except- Mic placing of some ha 11—dozen- groins on the opposite bank of the river, which appear to me to he absolutely uselc-s, and bad the money expended thereon, bqpn utilised to the erecting of a concrefe or- stono wall on the opposite side where the damage ha, been done, it would hav e served a fair amount toward the defraying of the expense thereof, .‘•or, it seems to me 10.l v '• Ire Council’s- bonnden duty to protect their own and other people’s properties, by attending to -iGiiv.-iuh needed pub-m business at once, for, bo assured of this, »what now may rnstt about, two hundred pnnmls, will ere long coatthousands if neglect continue, and he a bitter reflection to all . concerned, _at the glaring shortsightedness in this important matter. Thanking v ou in anticipation for the insertion of the above in vonr valuable paper, T am. cite., ONE TN r JT3REf?TED IN TOTTR. WELFARE.