Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 242, 17 February 1894, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE BOROLGH BYE-LAWS. TO TIIK KDITOH OV THK STAK Sik, — As a member of your community and having an interest in the welfare of i Feilding and its inhabitants, permit me through jour columns, to .draw the attention of those, whose business it is, or ought to be, to attend to same, to a few of the unpleasant poiuts that strike a stranger upon entering this town. Individually they may be considered trivial, but as a whole they constitute an evil. Firstly, then, allow me to draw the attention of the Inspector of Nuisances to a decided nuisance that exists in many of our principal streets (Grey street for example), by ornamental trees and bushes being allowed to grow over aud through the fences on to the public footpaths, making things very uupleasant for any person or persons who may be strangers, aud happen to be walking on the path or paths iv question at night. Again, I may remark that those who drive through the streets at night are either wilful breakers of the Borough Bye-Laws or they arc uot aware that they are compelled to carry lamps with their vehicles when driving after dark ; this matter demands immediate action. Further, another growing evil of|already seriousdimensious is noticed by those whose business and other engagements compel them to traverse our streets at night. Numerous are the collections of youths and children gathered at various places up aud down our principal thoroughfares, aud the language used by them (if such it can be called) reeks of filthy impurity and is, to say tho least, most objectionable, especially coining from such a source. Where arc the Bye-Laws now ? Or if they exist in paper, why are they uot carried out in practice ? If the town is to prosper and the sons of its inhabitants are to be successful as citizens, there must be some evidence of morality. Space prevents mo dwelling more fully on these and other topics that must concern us as residents in a town. Thanking you in anticipation. I am, etc., RouHK-A-Bocr. Feiidiug, February 16th, 1894.