PARKING IN INVERCARGILL

Southland Times, Issue 23675, 25 November 1938, Page 8

PARKING IN INVERCARGILL

To The Editor 2 Sir,—Would you please let me air a grievance against the present parking of cars. Last Friday morning with my husband and two children (one an infant) I arrived in Invercargill about 10 a.m. The day was anything but nice as a biting cold wind was blowing. My husband had an appointment with the dentist at 10.30 and was to park the car in Tay street, as we usually do when in town. However, owing to the new regulations he was not permitted to do so. I had scarcely done any shopping and the children were both grizzling and cold, and to make matters worse I did not know where the car was parked, so after a vain walk right through the Crescent and past the station I was very glad to sit there with my baby out of the cold wind. Not until late in the afternoon did I discover that the car was parked in an alley way at the back of the Crescent where nothing could be seen but dust. I am a loyal Southlander but until parking conditions are altered I for one will do no more shopping in Invercargill. A neighbour of mine who also had a somewhat similar experience informs me that she now does her shopping by post in Dunedin. She says it is quite satisfactory. I would not like to do shopping in Dunedin, but I must say that the Invercargill streets looked empty and bare and not like a busy market day. Trusting an abler pen than mine will take the matter up, and also the business people, for I am sure they will be the losers,—Yours, etc., FARMER’S WIFE. November 24, 1938.