AN UNSIGHTLY DITCH
TO fHE EDITOR
Sir, —Recently the ratepayers in that portion of Black's road affected by an unsightly and dangerous ditch petitioned the City Council to remedy the position. Result: The engineer reports that the ditch is sufficient. And sufficient it no doubt is, in the same manner as a miniature gully on a mountain side is sufficient to carry off storm water. It is sufficient also to account for children's torn stockings and clothes, gashed knees and hands, sprained ankles for adults, and many bad spills. This gutter might not be out of place in a backblock's sparselysettled district, but in a thickly-popu-lated area within our city boundaries it is a positive disgrace. With the known capacity of the member for the district for avoiding the sight of anything in his electorate that might call on him to bestir himself, it is useless looking in that direction for someone to help us in our affliction, but trust that a little ventilation of our grievance may bring our city fathers to rectify what is a dangerous and antiquated nuisance.—l am, etc.. Black's Road.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 6
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185AN UNSIGHTLY DITCH Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 6
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