WANTS STREET TIDY WHEN FRIENDS CALL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 8

WANTS STREET TIDY WHEN FRIENDS CALL.

DEVONPORT RESIDENT WRITES FROM PARIS, MAKING REQUEST.

(Special to the "Star. ) AUCKLAND. September 38. " This is a communication all the way from Paris, gentlemen,” said the Mayor of Devonport last evening, when No 7 on the order paper was called. The letter was an impassioned plea from a resident of the borough who is now touring the Continent that the Devonport Borough Council should, in his absence, do its best to clear the surplus growth of weeds from Rata Road, a tiny blind street thirteen thousand miles away from the Grand Hotel du Pavilion, close to the Champs Elysee.

The correspondent, after referring to Paris as “ this most beautiful city with its glorious boulevards,'' said that he will be “ very glad to get back to delightful Devonport," and plaintively informed the council that " many friends from abroad intend visiting me when I return, so please do not let me be ashamed of Rata Road when I return after the glowing accounts I have given of our country's beauties, and of Devonport in particular.” The letter was sympathetically received, and for the sake of Devonport's fair fame in France, something is to be done to reduce the crop of weeds.