A RATEPAYER’S COMPLAINT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 17

A RATEPAYER’S COMPLAINT

IO THE EDITOR Sir,—May I, through the medium of your paper, ask a member or two of the Dunedin Amenities Society to pay a visit to the top of Rainton road. Kew and view from there the disgraceful state of the lower portion of Bangor terrace? It has become a regular tip for rubbish, owing, no doubt, to the fact that in spite of repeated requests to the council, the terrace has become a tangled growth of weeds, thistles, etc., and the steps are in a shocking state. (I refer to the once asphalt steps.) The opposite side is very little used in comparison, having lately been sprinkled with ash or some such substance to *be washed down by the next rain of a heavy nature. This road and terrace have for some considerable time now been the most used avenue to the scores of houses that have been erected at Kew, and my object in appealing to the Amenities Society is that it seems to be able to get somewhere with the City Council. To add insult to injury, the council employees themselves just fling the refuse from the drains on to this portion—which is the road, by the way—instead of carting it away as heretofore. So evidently they are also under the impression that ratepayers don’t count, even though this is the front entrance to properties which faces this particular portion of Bangor terrace. Methinks if a councillor, Labour or otherwise, lived in the vicinity our suburb would have some semblance to the name it bears, especially when we try to do our share by attending to our properties, gardens, etc.—l am, etc.. Only a Ratepayer. May 16.