ADDINGTON SALEYARDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18091, 26 February 1927, Page 2

ADDINGTON SALEYARDS.

To the Fditor. Sir, —Recently I have been asked quite a number of times what is the Borough Council going to do about the i sale yards. I most decidedly think j that something should be done in the matter. The Sale Yard Company is adding to the yards considerably. The ratepayers who live on Princess Street, Blenheim Road and Dean’s Avenue and other streets about those quarters have a great deal to put up with. It is time that the yards were shifted further out; they are a menace to the borough. I have asked a number of stock agents- and auctioneers if they do not think it time that the yards should have been shifted, and, with one exception, they have stated that the yards should have been shifted out long ago, and that they would welcome the move. I brought this matter before the council the meeting before last, and moved that a petition be drawn up and placed in the borough office, and at ever}* store in the borough for the people to sign; and that the petition should be sent on to Parliament through our Riccarton M.P. However, I failed to get a seconder for the motion. I would now suggest that a deputation wait on the council and ask for a petition to be drawn up, as suggested, or perhaps some better scheme may be brought forward. We will never get those yards shifted if we don’t get to work on the matter. There is not another suburb in Christchurch which has such a beautiful approach to it as Riccarton. but it is marred and spoilt by the sale yards.— L am, etc., T. M. FORD.