TAYLOR, KING AND RICHMOND STREETS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2577, 27 July 1922, Page 5

TAYLOR, KING AND RICHMOND STREETS

(To the Editor). Sir, —I have recently noticed a few letters running in your paper regarding the Borough Council and the roads in tho Borough. If you will kindly allow nxe space, I wish to bring under the Council's notice the state of McLean Street and the streets around and leading into it, namely, Taylor Street, KingStreet and Richmond Streets. These are in a disgraceful state. Only yesterday

I noticed a motor lorry with a few bags of eoal on absolutely bogged in the cenitee of King Street, and the driver had »> fascine the road-with brushwood and sacks before he could get out, Richmond and Taylor Streets are equally as bad, and McLean Street worse than all. It is nothing but a slush channel from

end to end. I have travelled all over

the King Country, and even in the back blocks there, where nobody expects to sec a road, I have not seen a road so bad as that called McLean Street. Thero arc holes in it fully two feet deep, and except only in very dry wea,ther there is mud and slush well over one's boot-tops. I should like to invite the Mayor and his Councillors to take a walk along this street some evening after say two hours' rain, and let them see the state of their boots and clothing after they get through. I can't call it a road—certainly not a street. I know what is reminds me of, a line in the form of a road cut through a swamp with five hundred head of cattle being driven along it daily. The residents residing in these streets pay |a considerable amount in rates yearly, [and two of them I know pay ninety pounds or over, and what do they see f OT it?—an endless sea of mud and slush all round them, with the happy thought that if they have occasion to walk to town on business or to see the pictures, of having to use the hose to clean off the mud from their boots and clothing before walking down the main street. Some of them have to walk—they can't all afford a motor car! I notice also that the electric light is installed in some of the houses in the locality above mentioned. I have heard, but I refuse to believe it, that the -Council have refused to connect a light on the corner at McLean and Taylor Streets. This is a very sharp turn, where there is.mud in plenty. Surely the Council would not refuse this! I don't wish to suggest that the Council are not doing their best, or what they think is their best, but . . I would ask them to take a walk around the locality I have mentioned in wet weather, or better still, a day or two after rain. . . By a careful examination of the locality Councillors would then know how to act.—l am, etc., PROGRESSIVE. Cambridge, July 25, 1922.