OBSTRUCTIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 8

OBSTRUCTIONS

(To tho Editor of tho Horald.) •Sir, —It must bo with much sutislaction that the Gisborne public learn that the Borough Council has at last decided to discontinue the experiment of parking cars in the middle of the main road. The removal of the Sievwright memorial from being a congesting factor in the street to the more favorable situation on the riverbank is ro bo commended, while the narrowing of the proposed grass strip in Gladstone road by 2ft. is also a move in the rigrit direction. However, the council still may earn fresh laurels for common sense if it abolishes entirely the grass strip idea and finds a suitable location lor the Robinson memorial tower where it will not be a congesting nuisance to traffic and a potential danger to all who use the street as motorists and as pedestrians. It will be a matter of only a few short years till Gladstone road from Grey street onwards will have as large buildings and be as congested ns from Grey street to the Post Office, and one mnv easily visualise bow ridiculous a clock tower and trees would appear i* imposed on tho unoffending thoroughfare in front of the Herald office. Vet this is what is contemplated two blocks away where the road is no wider.— Yours, etc., NINETEEN THIRTY-THRCE.