ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 868, 27 January 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING MAIL Sik, —I noticed in a recent issue that Mr. Liddle had suggested that a plantation of gum trees would cure the '' dust plague" of Oamaru. A moment's thought will at once convince people of the error of such an idea. The trees would be useful for a few yards on the lee side, bul could never benefit all the streets in Oamaru. Someone else says, " When we get the water in we can easily lay the dust." How'? by making mud, to be dried up and tramped into dust in a few hours again 1 No, Mr. Editor, there is only one cure for the frightful "dusl plague," and that is metalling all the streets to their full width ; then, when your water is available, the streets could be kept pleasant, which is quite impossible as long as two-thirds of the streets are cut up by the traffic, for all avoid the narrow metalled portion, thereby in dry weather grinding three inches or more of clay into dust, or in wet weather into mud, to the inconvenience and disgust of all, but more particularly of yours, &c., Newco.uk. Oamaru, January 25, 1879.