Our Streets

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 47, 2 October 1884, Page 2

Our Streets

Fob many months pant a demand for ordinary dwelling houses has been in continued existence,, but no effort has been made to supply it. Occasionally a four roomed cottage becomes vacant ; but a few hours after an advertisement has appeared in our columns notifying the fact Bereral applicants are certain to put in appearance, and the place is at once occupied. If half a dozen decent houses containing six or eight rooms each were erected in Feilding within the- next two mouths, tenauts could be found for them who would be willing to pay a fair and remunerative rental. The chief objections raised by persons who are in a position to build, is that the main streets of the Borough are in such a wretched condition they would not feel safe in building on the sites abutting thereon, as people who are living in smaller but more inconvenient residences would be desinclined to remove into better buildings, where the drains passing in frout of the doors exhaled and disseminated the germs of disease. Id this connection we would like to remind Councillors when the question of covering in these drains comes before them that they must avoid the use -of wooden culverts altogether. In an adjacent town the evil effects of this practice has been too sadly felt by the deaths of several valued residents. It is wellknown that where the water necessary for flushing wooden drains is absent, the timber absorbs all the noxious matter from the sewage passing through them, only to throw it off again under the heat of the summer sun with fatal results to many. That scientific drainage, with the limited means at the disposal of the Council, is impossible, we are quite aware, but the improvement of the main streets of the Borough in such a manner as to encourage buildi g is quite within their power, aud the money is now at their disposal.