CRACKERS AND BOMBS IN CITY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18131, 30 December 1920, Page 3

CRACKERS AND BOMBS IN CITY.

TO THB EDITOR. Sir,—Tour subleader in yesterday's issue is to the point and timely. Not only was the nuisance pronounced on Christmas Eve but also on Christmas Day, • and even on Sunday, Tho noise, while distracting to people in good health, must have been doubly so to inmates of hospitals, to nerveracked soldiers, and sick folks generally, and the apathy of the police in not promptly suppressing the nuisance is very much to be deprecated. If our young people wish to burn money in such a manner, which at a time like the present looks very much like a silly waste, lot them go out to Tomahawk and St. Kilda benches, and do so at their heart's content. I join issue with your correspondent "Pedestrian," who suggests that such things bo confined to the back areas. The comfort of dwellers in back areas has aa much claim for consideration as that of pedestrians parading the main streets. The only course is to entirelv suppress- the nuisance, riirl I hone such will be done at New Year tinio. There aro plenty of beautiful fire■worlcs available—Roman candles, golden showers, Catherine wheels, etc.. but nothins seem to appeal to the rising irenernf'on that does not mnko a din. TSomb?. Russian nn<l other, ought to be prohibited being sold altogether.—l am. etc., Back Area.