CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1808, 2 April 1918, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editpr.) Sir. —Kindly allow' me space in which to voice a complaint in regard to the apology for a footpath ■which exists on both sides of Union Street. How Ihe residents have stood it so long, while the north end is coddled like it is, beats me. From Main Street round to Johnston Street is asphalted, and even this is being destroyed for the want of a coat of tiir and sand, and from there on it is simply disgraceful. The only work ever put into this path has been to dump all the rubbish on to it from the drain which runs alongsidc, and it is rubbish —bricks, bottles, tins, etc., and the conglomeration which gathers in a drain. We have a councillor doing this street every day, and others have been interviewed, but, like the lakes through which we plod on this so-called path, too deep to fathom. The idea of picking up the limestone path in the Avenue, which, only required re-tarring, to • a depth of nearly three inches, and putting tarred cinders on, is beyond me. Anyhow, why not dump the pickings on the Union Street path*? During the recent rain there were pools chains long, and a depth of water up to nine inches, and this is what w r e residents have to contend with during the wet season, or live the life of a. hermit. No wonder we have so much sickness amongst-the children going to school during the winter, for they cannot get dry-shod along the path. Why don’t the roads and paths committee pay us a visit during a wet day?—Thanking you, sir, I am, etc., WET FOOT.