WELLINGTON'S MAIN STREETS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 11 March 1911, Page 3

WELLINGTON'S MAIN STREETS.

Sir,—You gave us some very interesting reading ■ro Dr. Newman's report on tbo streets of towns in the Old Country and elsewhere. It just made tho shopkeepers of Wellington's "mouths water" for a similar happy state of alfairs here. Now would the good doctor put up for Mayor again, and import some of these men to this citv who understand how to deal with the streets? I 'am afraid of writing too strongly if I were to express the feelings of tho shopkeepers of this city. You would not print it. Cuba Street aud Manners Street are a disgrace to us. They have not been cleaned for some time; tho saud is blowing about into the shops, damaging valuable stocks; the gutters are full of dry horse-droppings, covering pedestrians in showers as they walk along, at tho least breath of wind. The council some timo ago, with a great flourish of trumpets, imported a tram track water-ing-car, and the dust from that date was to vanish. I havo seen it once in Cuba Street, just dropping a drizzle of water as it rushed through, kicking up tho dust itself in' clouds. Mr. Editor, can something be done—do plead, for us.—l am, etc., A SHOPKEEPER.