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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 6, 13 August 1874, Page 3

A MOTHER'S GRIEVANCE. (To the Editor of the Clutha Leader.') Dear Mr. Editor, — I can assure you we ladies of the district were equally glad with the lords ofthe creation— (pretty ldrds dome of them are !)— -when we saw the first number of our own local paper. I have no doubt you will be always ready to give us a corner of the Leadter when we have any little grievance we wish remedied. You know we have some influence in society here, and if you oblige us we will stick up for the Leader like bricks — as the men would say. Well, then, our grievances are smajl, but you' know small annoyances often put us more about than large ones. My children attend the school here, and in this wet weather they always come home with boota in snch a state of mud that it takes me an hour to clean them every night. You know servants are not to be had, and I ha-vjeto' dp. it myself. I scold ithem, but I believe the poor things can't help it. They say they cannot get to or from the school without getting over the boots. Now, Mr Editor, I have urged my husband to go to the Town Council about it, but he is such a bashful lump (a good husband for all that), that he won't do it, and therefore I write' td'you (but you must not tell him) to see if the Conncil would make. a gravel crossing across Lanark-street, opposite the sohool, and perhaps a footpath along Dun* clog-street. This would let the children get up to Renfrew- street without mud, and then they would have a gravelled path to any part of the town. If Mr Jamie had got into the Council" I am rare the good soul would have done this for us; but I'm not so sure of Mr Kilgour. If he does not I'll bake my own bread. I am, dear Mr Editor,' yours etc., , Jemima. (Note.— We are sure the attention of the Council only requires to be called to this matter. The crossing in Lanark- street wonld onl*f require two or three loads of gravel, which the Engineer should be gallant enough to order at once. — Ed. C. L.)