CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.
"Subscriber" complains of negligence »' the telephone, and gives an actual instance. ' H.S. reverts to a proposal made by Mt Burrows, to the effect that a suitable memoria to the Queen's reign would be the acquisitioi of the vacant piece of ground opposite thi Public Library, anil its dedication aud layinf oat as a public square. The erection of I handsome block of buildings on the north side would soon follow, and Victoria Squire would greatly contribute to the beauty »nd dignity of the town, and be a most Bttinf memorial of sixty yean , national progress under good Queeu Victoria. "Humanity" calls the attention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty » Animals to the coaching traffic between Thames and Paeroa. The fares have been reduced to a rate which cannot pay, tbf coaches are crowded, aud the unfortunate horses have to suffur. Our correspondent states what the horses are forced to do, and commends the subject to the Society.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10416, 14 April 1897, Page 6
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161CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10416, 14 April 1897, Page 6
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