STREET ETIQUETTE.

Evening Star, Issue 3664, 19 November 1874, Page 2

STREET ETIQUETTE.

To the Editor. ' i - *kat BOlße folks here cry out for iegwlation on matters which at Homo ngnt themselves without any fuss? For instance, one of our daily papers wants immemate legislation to prevent burdens being earned on the pavement—to compel every boy or man carrying a load to walk in the gutter or on the toad, at the risk of being run over. Now, to people. > who remember London, Liverpool, or Glasgow, this does ugppjftigoaiy fttyupd, for QjHfc ipity <sf<

tying lo’da on their head l ; or shoulders may be seen any. morning bh the pavement in London than the whb’e passenger traffic in Princes street, Dunedin, in a week, and yet no one complains there. The tru'b is, we are so accustomed to walk just where wo please, utterly regardless of the rule< of the footpath, that collisions are unavoidable. It is positively more difficult to walk along the pavement in our Princes street than in Che p*ide, just because both men and women hare no idea of keeping their proper side; aud then, forsooth, the poor men who have to carry a load are to be bundled out in the roadway, rather than educate the people into some of the courtesies of the footpath recognised in all civilised lands. Better let things square themselves ; and, if people persist in keeping the wrong|side and get a poke in the eye from the tray of a butcher’s boy or a hat knocked off by a porter’s load, they deserve no sympathy.—l am, &c., Citizen. Dunedin, November IS. {While agreeing with our correspondent in the main, it is necessary to remember that butchers’ boys and porters need education in this matter as well as pedestrians, who really require protection against their rude disregard of others’ rights.—Ed, ‘E. S.’]