NEW OBSERVER LOOKS AT TE AWAMUTU

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 68, Issue 5941, 10 May 1944, Page 3

NEW OBSERVER LOOKS AT TE AWAMUTU

Sir, —I would like to draw the attion to readers of this paper to some serious lack of services to citizens of a very thriving town amidst a potentially productive district which has few equals in this country of milk and honey. As a newly-arrived I am very much surprised at not seeing numbers allocated to the houses, and after having ransacked this place for four months for a house, flat or rooms, asking everybody who lives where with no numbers to be guided by I luckily secured a house. Then seeing I was a new tenant, I had several inquiries such as “Are you so and so, as I have an urgent telephone message?”, or “Where does Mr So and So live on this street?” and so it goes on and on. All needless work and time lost to postal authorities, business people, agents and citizens alike.

Then some time ago I was in town one Thursday, Sale Day. Farmers arrive with their wives and families to get their weekly needs. I asked a person on the street where the ladies’ rest room was. I was told there was a Blanket room some distance up a by-street. Well, if there is anything wanted more urgently in a town of this size I would ask any reader to please point it out. What can the trouble be? Surely not money when one sees an overworked station yard trying to cope with the dispatch of dairy produce and fat stock. I was directed to the Library one evening, and of course expected to see a spacious building of modern architecture and in a prominent position of the town. I was- sadly disappointed, and had I not seen someone reading a paper near the door I would have gone past thinking it was a boarding house. We all say a new order is wanted in the future. Let’s start from the bottom of the ladder and start the wheels of machinery in operation. Awake! Make this town a monument of the productive wealth around us—a monument to honour our brave soldiers in the form of a rest room or a modern library is one suggestion. In conclusion ‘ I would like to add in view of the re-election of councillors shortly that if a progressive programme is in their minds these anomalies will no doubt get their earnest consideration.—l am, etc., • NEW OBSERVER.