CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

CRAWTOftD 110 AD

(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir.:— Will you kindly let me rectify an error m your valuable paper m regard to the creek m Crawford road. Tl is quite-t rue there is only a U'ickle ol wate^ m the summer months, and sometimes it is quite dry, -all but those deep holes', especially m the locality 'when' the accident occurred. It is only a few months back m tho early part of the summer that a child about the same a«;oj was just got out m the nick of- time. At one time 'tlie bed of tlio creek was dammed up about six feet to hold water for the soap '-work's, and it lias iiever been property- cleared away, I called the Council's attention to it on' several occasions, but the only notice that was taken was to have a few briars cut along the edges. Considering the number of children Tivingr on thp. road it is time the Council saw. that owners of property ' along tlie creek' cleared out the bottohi and side's so that" the wafer could get away; if not the Council should do tlie work and charge it to the owners of property. . I am a nine years' resident of Crawford road, and can assure you when the creek is m flood, which is very often during the winter,, .-.there is over 10ft- of water m the cenlire. '.. t haye, measured it from ihy bridge, and there ape no holes there, so it must/ be v'eiy miich deeper where- the accident- occurred.— l am. etc., ; , ;;> ,/J.,^ JAMES.