NUISANCES.—NO. 3

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 347, 25 March 1911, Page 5

NUISANCES.—NO. 3

To The Editor. I was just starting to pen this when my attention was called to the letter in your last issue from "Observer" on the insanitary state of our streets. He puts it very well, but not half strong enough. One has only to walk down Rora street, and see it filled with Maori 3, men, women, and children, the men in groups filling up the footpath so that the ordinary passenger, especially if a lady, has to step out on the road to pass them, whiie the women and children (most of the latter with a nasal infirmity), are squatted all about the steps of the shops, chewing oranges and bananas, the peels of which are dropped all over the footpath, just to enable the unwary passer by to slip up and go sprawling, which I have nearly done more than once myself, because they are too lazy to throw them into the road. Attention is called to the fact that there are two constables in the town —I think it must be mere rumour, as they are generally non est when wanted, and even when visible do not take any steps to warn the offenders. I venture to think it is about time that our august local body took steps to cope with the nuisance.—l am, etc., RATEPAYER.