CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 8

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

to tub Burrou. Sir, —With regard io an artmlo in your paper the other night about the Wising of people in Glasgow. anyone knows the reason why it is tho large blocks of tenement houses that cause the trouble, and it will take years and years yet to get rid of that class of houses. But from reading your paper and the Glasgow' ‘.Herald’ in tho library T find they are advancing very much in the outskirts of “Glescn,” and the home folk can get little villas to re.nt now with gardens back and front, for I have two brothers in Ibrox district lining in one each. The wbolo trouble is that people will not shift, out of the slums, which means that there is no elevating of their conditions in life. Now, what causes slums is that, people who do not. own a house will not keep it as they ought. 1 don’t mean the inside, as regarding painting and papering, - but the gardens and walks around their houses. I. walkdown York place very often, and I see two nice garden fronts, and it is a pleasure to see them. Now, ns to creating a beautiful city, there is ouo feature of city construction I do not like, and that is churches and big educational eddies built in such a way as to block the sunshine from tiie no’arhy houses. Those people before others illicit think a little .for other people’s

health ami oilier bcuelUs. As to Dunedin itself, they have advanced very much .since I came hero, bat not to the same extent in all directions. You see fruit shops boxed up with no real ventilation, which causes a Infmid smell and is unhealthy. The same applies t,o dairies. In “ Glcsea,” where it is not as hot as here, every dairy, Iruit, and tish shop must have free air vent through the shop. Some butchers’ and lish shops here have advanced very much, hut there are shops still which leave room for iinpnf.'cinent.—l am, etc., Some Pkoorf.ss. February ‘27.