OUR FOOTPATHS.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15354, 1 October 1923, Page 6

OUR FOOTPATHS.

(To the Editor). Sir, —I notice that the Council has undertaken its periodical waste of money on the main street footpaths, and besides leaving them with tar has spread a great depth of sand on them, which, presumably, will be left to

blow about the streets during the whole summer, as- the wind first carries it one way and then another. This is what has happened on several previous occasions, until shopkeepers have brought maledictions on the heads of the engineering department, while pedestrians have cursed with all their might the stupid people who have been almost the cause of their blindness. If the Council does not feel inclined to sweet up this sand when the tar is set, then I would suggest that a citizens’ committee undertake the vyork. I, for one, willingly volunteer. —I am, etc., BLINKER.

(To the Editor). Sir, —Can no better way of tarring our footpaths be devised than the present method adopted by the Borough Council? As far as I can see all that is done is simply to brush a iittle tar over the surface, anti then spread a cart-load of sand at distances of every few yards. The sand in places upwards of an inch deep is simply allowed to lie there nutil it is blown or washed away by a few heavy showers. In the meantime pedestrians wo~uld almost think it was summer, and that they were spending a holiday at the seaside, but to the shopkeepers the nuisance is a very serious one. There is sand all over the floor, while as soon as we step out into the footpath our shoes become full of the vile material of which the Council has apparently such a plentiful supply—even if they haven't a not 100 abundant supply of more essential tilings—brains for instance. —I am, etc., SHOPKEEPER.