BRIGHTON DOMAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 7

BRIGHTON DOMAIN

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I read with interest the letter of your correspondent “ Visitor for Forty Years." Why, he and I must have been fellow walkers, drivers, and passengers since my first visit to this lovely seaside resort was in a four-in-hand . over 50 years ago and, like your correspondent, I now enjoy thtL motor ride. I love it still; to my mind there is no place so near to our city which compares with it. Hence my anxiety to restore the public confidence and arrest the apparent apathy. If your correspondent will add to his repertoire the unsightly, not to say unnecessary, old sawmill or tramway rope and fence erected round the Market square last week, then I would say his references to a hardware merchant's catalogue were correct. Perhaps he will do so! The fact remains that the “ iron hand ” methods are seen everywhere to the disgust of local residents and visitors alike. By the way, who gave the "iron hand ” any control over the Market reserve, so that its consent or interference was sought or necessary _to enable an adjoining owner to take his water drainage to the street. Surely this is another case of arrogance. Like my friend, however, I shall continue'my visits to Brighton —my interests therein are varied; its bathing I love; its “ iron hand ” I will not tolerate. The notice as to charge for cars, I reiterate, is a new one. If your reports of the County Council meetings were correct ■ —and they are—then, the_ parking area fronting the beach on which the Motor Club’s contribution and other money were] spent amounting to well on to £IOO, was to be closed on the understanding that no charge would be made on the j domain. The result we know. Apathy abdunds. : —l am, etc., Old Ratepayer.