A TRAMWAY NUISANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 8

A TRAMWAY NUISANCE.

To the Editor. Dear Sir,—As a patient sufferer I wish to protest through your esteemed journal at the injustice meted out to the residents of Colombo Street, North. For the last month we have listened to an endless barrage night and day inflicted on us by the Tramway Board. Some people are not sleeping an average of two or three hours a night, and our endurance is just about at an end. Our worthy councillors have shut the dance halls at 11.30 on Saturdays so that the neighbourhoods may obtain rest, but the above folk must endure the rattling of tractors, scoops and that devil’s contraption, the rail-

grinder, until their patience is exhausted and they are tempted to use words that are not to be found in Webster’s. We are often told of noisy exhausts, and tooting of horns, but these are as mere popping of lemonade corks to the hell that has been let loose in Colombo Street. Now, sir, why can’t this work, or at least the noisiest part of it, be done before midnight and let people who have to work during the day obtain some rest. Thanking you.—l am, etc., HUSH-A-BYE.