THAT OLD, FAMILIAR SMELL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 56, 16 June 1948, Page 4

THAT OLD, FAMILIAR SMELL

Sir, —There is an old familiar smell creeping back into the air on the street at the back of the Strand. When noticed the air was comparatively still, and the aroma was wafting gently along over the buildings into the Strand itself, so the writer proceeded to investigate and found a similar state of affairs existing as in the days before tar-seal-ing. That state of affairs was a very foul high-water mark that showed the decaying food and generally uneatable rubbish that will accumulate in shops of any kind, such as empty tins and the like, dumped down the bank and occasionally there was the scene of some con-science-struck person who had lit a fire and attempted to burn away the rubbish in some cases'successfully. In a lot of cases no attempt had been made at all. For a while after the sealing of the street it was noticed that the shops were making attempts to give the area at least a little air of respectability by planting flowers along the quay-way. but the casual observers today cannot notice these things as they pass along the street, but it has been smelt out, that soon no-one will be able to pass along without passing out so thus there will be no need to keep the place clean and healthy and no need to improve its'looks and there for there can’t be any need for a road, so it looks as if the Borough Council has wasted a lot of good money on forming the road. Yours etc., “SNIFTER”