SEDDON STREET ROAD-MAKING.
[to the editor,] Sir—Would you be so kind as. to let-; your readers know what the Borough Council are doing in Seddon Btreet, or what they mean by the ditch they are making up the centre of the street. As they .have become some) think they mean to give burgess the pleasure of a little angling. But*whatever they intend, they are creating a dangerous nuisance In a fare, by keeping their great *tnrrik canai> . open in the centre .of the street, with/onetl small lamp, which sometimes '<,-]s,'ijaofc lighted, especially on wet darlf I jjgfi'&<. -1.! wonder, n someone breaks ing into it, will they come ;i d6wh somely to relieve. the sufferer ? •Withbui£ doubt it is one of the - greatest ; bits' k>£ engineering by way of street-making thati I, or perhaps anyone else' has ever seen—tearing up a good road by cutting a deepf ditch in the centre,' to the danger of lifeand limb. I would.' suggest that th'§ Inspector of Nuisances should summon the Borough Council for creating; "af" ppblio nuisance in Seddon street; and j tkink
lie Would get the hearty public support tor at least trying a sanitary reform. The hunera’ following is dangerous enough all
- Q -'O' day. long, Without having to encounter the Sedddn-atreet man-trap at night. - A Wanderer. Septetpbei? 24th..
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Kumara Times, Issue 622, 25 September 1878, Page 2
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