A COMPLAINT FROM SILVERSTREAM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 9

A COMPLAINT FROM SILVERSTREAM.

{ 'Sir,VeAs; your /paper /appears 'larEestjV.circulatiqn',; mYthe-Hutt ,;Vafle,vi I wish, through''its. mediumj ; .to give"publicity/' to ',a ; .serious. 1 disabilityVfromiwhich/the/'in-' habitants ..(of/, the: growing; commUhities. v '>of / ;9ilvorstream arid.' Tfcntham 1 >are'-iat'-present ; suffering:' "Prefer.;to:the'systematic' stealing that/occurs; at: Sjlyerstraam Baihvay:. Sta■ticn.; Although,practically, all trains.both/up an d;' dflwn/'/tha',-; valley.. Stop 'at '<' the! station,, there' is:no; officer ! in, : oh'aVga,. and- the,': con-', goods-of. all'kinds' amyingi.'thero,/; unless; .promptly;,: ''•Jremovcdj'. appear/to. be.quite:'at -the. 'meroy.'of/'certain", dislionest;persons,^who-fare' l a:disgrace to/a respectable,.country bnlky articles such as,building materials,-and ,; -:farm c requisites,"if fle'ft./at the:''statiori,'bveruignt,, are^'not/immune.: fronv.risk ;of; loss—proving' that some :at;Khy- : rato: of-the! pilferers/bring' carts 1 to-carfy'M-.their plunder; whilb 'such trifle's/"as,'.foodstuffs,/;.-wearirig.'. apparel,-' and .tho smaller/description;of„parcels-arriving from town/have a,:\v,ay'of,-:dißappeanhg : altor unless 'ithey!': arc; .'promptly ■.lifted, :'/./Now';such-.a state'.of things- ; is -both iiicbn-' ■voniont.!and discreditable j'ibut 'where drefwe; to 'find a'.remedyP> The./railwayWauth.orit-ies /ropudiate':'rosppnsibility,..as}:there :iß:,noi 6fli:, charged of/:the "stajio'n—the 5 polico aro/.few.'.and'far.:.between, '■ I;.should like' tdißuggest to'.tho community, .whothWit" tee, something: on;.thfl-Americanvplan; with ;sharp,:and,'summary, punishment. for tho :6f-' ifcnders, ; if,;,wd' : .c'an catch th'ein.' l^-! 'am,'- etc.'i'; ■• ;-^:PA^MH-i'-A i RESIDENT .A! '..February' 10,'-1909. 'y: : y' ; ;^'-(,.:•■''/!,';.:,a;/