AS OTHERS SEE US.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 498, 22 April 1881, Page 2

AS OTHERS SEE US.

To the Editor. Sir, —Having - made a short stay in Akaroa, I should like with your permission to make a few remarks about , the place. { Any reference,to the magnificent harbor, the lovely scenery, or the pretty girls, would of course bo superfluous, as these are known to all, but respecting the management of the town by the authorities, some few remarks may be made. The main street to begin with, is in a shocking state of repair, and it is impossible to walk a yard, without coming upon all sorts of refuse, such as broken- bottles, etc., evidently the clearing out of the various public houses iii the town. Surely the Inspector of'nuisnnceH (if there is one) must be asleep. Then again a couple 1 of anchors, (all the year round, ns 1 hear) are stuck in a dangerous position in the centre of the fore shore, and very often n taut rope between a punt and ono of the said anchors, a truly lively lookout for horsemen and pedestrians. The fore shore I should imagine belongs to the.Grown, and therefore as the Queen's highway is for the use of all, to be abused by none. Possibly the limits of the .Borough may,' extend (l>y Gazette notice) to low water mark. If this is so, another instance presents itself by the neglect of the Council in not seeing to the speedy removiil of these nuisances through the agency of the Inspector of nuisances, The pigsties in the Borough belonging to various houses, are also in a filthy state and will soon, if not already,. breed fevers and other various diseases. Where again is your Inspector ? The Borough by-laws { I presume 'provide power'for the removal of all obstructions. I think the most flaming of them are the: t\vo enormous steps proi. jecting on'tlic pavement from his Worship the Mayor's store' ipi 'the /almost certain injury of passers by, and I am told many a spill has been. tß'Useil; !by-[them. However I can't say more on this head, as I, hear that his Worship, feeling the incompatibility )f his position as 'first citizen in the place and having to call upoti others.to ■remove obstructions, while such a flagrant violation of , the law is exhibited at his own door, intends to/fomove them, so that r.o one shall be ictiio io'say " First take the beam out &£ thine own eye, etc. One thing morel. 1 think the town ought to be lighted, along the Esplanade, which after sunset is a daugeriohs tva'.k.— ,■'' Yours, elp.jj* - ,' VISiTOB, '