THE TOWN BELT SCRUB.

Evening Star, Issue 3610, 17 September 1874, Page 3

THE TOWN BELT SCRUB.

To the Editor. Sir, —Few motions have come before the City Council calculated to do as much benefit at a trifling cost as that to be brought before it at the tirst meeting by Councillor Gibson. The scrub referred to in his mo'.iou is a most pestilential nurssry f r dheise. To take two proofs out of many : the families of two well-known citizens have been lately swept through by sickness of an endemic nature, which they have good reason to think has been caused by the noxious vapors arising from the scrub in their neighborhood. Itj« removal has long been urged by residents in the vicinity, as well as by the I’ress, and a numerously signed memorial lately presented to the Council advocated the removal of a large portion of it It bars access to a most beautiful part of the Belt, and the unwary pedestrian who attempts to penetrate it finds to his disgust that it has been made a receptacle for filth of all descriptions. If the Council got a good deal of the wretched scrub cleared off the Belt, the citizens could do for a long time without a Belt road; the green grass would be the best pathway aud playground for old and young, and would be a pleasant relief after the penance done on the hard gravel paths of the Botanic Gardens.—l am, &c., Dunedin, September 16.