NEGLECTED STREETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19658, 9 June 1927, Page 14

NEGLECTED STREETS.

Sir, —I should like to protest against the way in which the City Council cleans, or rather, neglects to clean, some of its less fashionable streets. I am speaking mainly of parts of Ponsonby. Around here scores of children, for lack of a better place, play on the road, and for this reason alone the council, if it has any regard for the health of the people, should be specially careful to keep its streets clean. But the truth is that these parts are most shamefully neglected. One part in particular is worth mention, Russell and Wood Streets. In about the middle of the latter the road dips forming a shallow basin, and during the recent storm a great quantity of rubbish was washed down and deposited here. For some time it was allowed to remain. Then on the Friday the dirt was swept into heaps on either side of the road. And there it was left over the week-end—a most unpleasant sight for all who walked that way on Sunday. Finally, the terrific wind blew the stuff in all directions; under our gates, over our fences, and even into our doors and windows, and into the faces of t children as they passed to and fro from school. Oh, for a good old-fashioned watercart, and a man using a. broom a3 though he meant it. Wood- Street,