IMPRESSIONS OF DUNEDIN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21053, 16 June 1930, Page 12

IMPRESSIONS OF DUNEDIN.

TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—As a visitor from the garden city (Christchurch) to Dunedin, I have seen many things which have shown the wisdom of the men who have had control of the civic life of the latter city—the clean and wide streets, the large and numerous public parks, the efficient tramway system, with its courteous, able, and obliging staff, and the desire of everyone to welcome the stranger and to assist him in seeing the sights. The Library is a credit to Dunedin. Some very substantial buildings in stone and reinforced concrete, which are a credit to the gentlemen who are responsible for the architectural beauty of the city. In going over some of Dunedin’s well-con-ducted factories, I have been- struck very mu ,, tke up-to-date machinery installed therein and the high quality of the manufactured articles. Dunedin is W V‘. “P,* 0 d? te in supplying its people’s spiritual needs, its beautiful churches and ite well conducted services being a pleasing feature in the civic life. Whilst I have seen much to admire, there are, in my humble opinion, one or two matters which I think could be improved. Firstly the lighting, system on the streets could bo improved. Instead of the lamps being on a pole directly over the water channel, ■ let them, be ■ placed, on an.

bracket six feet over the road from the water channel,'and then there would be the shadows on- the footpaths, as at the present, time. In some—places with obstruction, as there is at present through verandas, etc., the light is scarcely of any use at all. Again, instead of the miserable globes which seems to confine and prevent the light from fulnlling its duty, let there be installed an fi lobe ' with a shade over it of to inches diameter of a reflecting characstrife* W i )ul ? light on the . „ IDBtea j allowing it to illuminate shldp H d - starß V as^le existing look Lw in any case * they only look now as if they were there to keen for iUiimto a K r * rom * be globes and not one inSi * 10 ? Pappases. Further, if~a?f:Wa, ts *? board a tram to go to a a L P a -f e • one , re( l uire a almost to destm^;imi aK of f B aSS t° discover the uesimation of the car. It seems as if aUt \° rities . are afraid to tell the public where the tram is going, judeiue by the almost invisible and inligteficlnt time W v Ch . IS oa *be trams at the present aiut' c Y fc ’ aga ??’ why the council should and nthp^ ally iron trap doors and other iron- facings on the side walks of tW Pr Places, to the dinger sli P on them, is incomprehensible to me. If the Dunedin c”v would attend to these matters I totPrpS V p nCed J lt - Wou l d be in own best B °r much after their pattern.—l am, etc, 7 Woolston, June 13. lIOMAS -