POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 10

POINTS FROM LETTERS

A correspondent, "Anxious Mother,"! makes a complaint that some of the motor-* men on the Miramar tram route fail to ob-1 serve the compulsory tram stop at. thej school gates, and points out the danger to; human life should a child run suddenly I out of the school entrance, when a tramis passing at full speed. The city bylaws compelling a house own-. er to build a separate washhouse for an: electric washing machine and a dummy chimney where heating is all electric, axe' criticised by a correspondent, who signs himself "Wake Up.." The writer holds1 the opinion that such expenditure is uri-~ necessary, and asks "where is the sense,*, logic, or consistency?" in making such by-' laws. . •

"Passenger" asks how can the Railway Department expect the public to patronise' the late train to Paekakariki on Fridaynights when it frequently spends from' 15 to 20 minutes at Johnsonville, shunting, the result being that it is midnight before' Plimmerton is reached, taking one hour twenty-five minutes for a distance of IS' miles. The correspondent makes the defi--; nite complaint that the train on Friday night last reached Plimmerton at. 1250. The display of confectionery for sale that, is open to all the dust and germs from the street is the subject of a letter by a correspondent, "Safety First," who commends the practice to the attention of the Health authorities. The correspondent instances a recent incident when the', contents of a shop were open to the dust: being shaken from a mat and swept by the proprietress. He likens the practice to that of a milk vendor who sells milk from dirty cans, and says if other shops can sell confectionery in a hygienic way, it is for the Department to make the lot; do it.

"A Parent of Three" writes:—"Please allow me to make known through the 'Evening Post'- the need for the City Council to extend its present trip at 8.20 from the G.P.O. to View road, Melrose, so as to take the school children who are wishing to attend the new school just opened at Haughton Bay Hall. Many parents; like myself, would prefer sending our children to the new school, as it is in our district and the town schools are too overcrowded."

Morpheus" writes: "On complaining to" the police of my next-door neighbourscausing a nuisance on frequent occasions by continuing their drunken orgies accompanied by bad lanugage, and 'music/ into the small hours of the morning I was surprised to leap that the police can take no action against these pests, providing they are confined in their own homes. If this is what the law says ia regard to the matter, then I think it is time the law was amended, to bring people to a sense of common decency towards their neighbours. Can anyone explain what is the legal remedy?"