Litter at Tram Stops.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20222, 5 February 1934, Page 6

Litter at Tram Stops.

Dear Sir,—ln this clean town of ours there arc, I am sorry to say, a good many' uncHan spots. The city fathers (or the Tramway Board) have been considerate enough to supply seats at certain tram stops for the convenience of waiting passengers. But, while waiting, many of the passengers smoke, eat, spit and leave behind them quite a heap of litter, such «•= cigarette cartons and butts, empty paper bags, a sheet of a newspaper, stones r 't soft fruits and portions of half-consumca fruit, etc., etc., and so convert these wayside havens of rest into rubbish heaps Whose business is it to keep those spots clean? Surely not the adjacent owners to whom thise places often are vexatious eyesores. They would be only too pleased to have them removed. May' I suggest that one unemployed man be given the job to keep these spots sweet and ckan. Also may I ask, have the adjacent property owners any right to object to their frontages being turned into garbage yards, can thev demand the removal of —I am, etc., A SUFFERER.