WOODEN PAVEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10241, 25 December 1894, Page 3

WOODEN PAVEMENTS.

TO THIS EDITOR. SIR> —There is an old quotation— How much a fool who has been to Rome Excels the fool who stays s.t home I Bat it seems we nrasi ko abroad to learn to utilise the good things we possess. I pould ask any of our traders and shopkeepers ia Princes aud Georgß streets what they compute their losses at by the dust, &c. which d&ily destroys their goods, and why they do not rise as Gne man and demand that our main thoroughfares be paved with wood, which i» easily kspt clean and 13 noiseless and durable— as >be crossing in Princes street from Wise's to Hardies corner illustrate?. Here we are ou t'i3 verge' of a water faiuine, !>.ud may expect! Sry and dusty streets. Sea water creates rust jmd other damage, as has been proved. If! Paris, London, Berlin, aad Vienna see it is IHtest to adopt wood pnvernents aod import the material, what dullards we must be not to use what is at our doors! Aud from a philanthropic point of view, instead of employing hundreds of men to burn and destroy Natura's f.ifts, could thousands aot be more profitably c-p.'.ployed felling and converting into a merchantable aiticle these valuable forests, Bud confer a great benefit to willing workers and an outlet for capital likely to be most productive? The question of microbes and disease caused by the dust I leave to ths medicos. —I am, &c, December 19. Look Ahead.