COMPLAINT ABOUT REST-ROOM

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6243, 17 June 1946, Page 5

COMPLAINT ABOUT REST-ROOM

Sir, —Doing all my farm business in Te Awamutu, and having reason to visit the town four days in the last consecutive four weeks, I wish to draw the Borough Council’s attention to the following matter. Each day the door next the street of the women’s toilet at the Plunket rooms has been choked with pennies, and therefore unusable. Last Thursday the climax was reached. The toilet privately owned in the town was out of commission, - the (first door at the Plunket rooms, as usual, useless, and in the second partition the chain, clanking and groaning reminiscent of convict days, through over-work gave fc up the ghost. What the position was ar the end of the day, with the box over-loaded with pennies and women and children queueing up, I shudder to visualise. If the Council must have revenue, w’hat about a street collection, with the boxes marked “ Workable Mechanism in Aid of Women’s Toilet ” ? Or, failing that, a copper trail from the Council Chambers to the Plunket rooms ? Even a few males might give a coin or two for a worthy cause. Then, after such a burst of generosity, country mother might find two wwfcable doors, two modem and workable cisterns, a closed container

for refuse, and, ye gods ! the creeper tom from the ventilators. In conclusion, may I add that if Te Awamutu ever reaches the status of a city let the motto for the new coat of arms be “ Grab All. Country Women and Children Last.”—l am, etc., COUNTRY MOTHER.