DUST NUISANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27499, 20 September 1950, Page 6

DUST NUISANCE

Corstorphine Women Complain SPEED LIMIT SUGGESTED If they caused rejoicing nowhere else, the light showers which fell last night must surely have gladdened the hearts of many Corstorphine housewives. Having been plagued by muddy streets in the winter, they are now being devastated by dust. Indeed, dust is a word they profess to hate. Every time a lorry or a car passes along the, suburban streets, great clouds of choking, yellow dust billow in its wake and penetrate through 'every crevice of the houses. For some time yesterday afternoon a Daily Times reporter stood on the corner of Isadore road and Middleton road.- Lorry after lorry swept round the curve and raised great flurries of dust, to the discomfort and noticeable annoyance of those who passed by. “We know we have to expect inconvenience until the settlement is finished,” commented a housewife who was standing in her front garden, looking dourly at a retreating cloud of dust, “but 'surely there is no need for these cars and lorries to make it worse by driving so fast. If only the transport people would put a speed limit on traffic until the road is sealed, it would help tremendously.” Another woman complained that it was practically impossible to get her laundered linen into the house before it had been smudged with dust. “As for keeping the house clean, it is hopeless,” she added. Her next-door neighbour joined in and, walking to her front windows, drew a line with her finger across a pane of glass. “They were cleaned two days ago. Now look at them,” she said. ' Some unkind comments about drivers were made by two young women who appeared to be on their way to pay a social call. As successive vehicles swept past, so their clothes and shoes became spattered with dust.