STREET NUISANCES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4193, 28 August 1874, Page 2

STREET NUISANCES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —If more were needed than has been advanced for the General Government to take over control of some institutions that are now understood to be under the supervision of the Provincial Governments, there is one very strong argument patent to the eyes of anyone who has occasion to frequently traverse the streets of Wellington. On that leading towards Mount Victoria, butchers and bakers drive along the footpaths just as if they were main streets, to the great discomfort and annoyance of pedestrians. Occasionally horsemen gallop down these at a pace that certainly is dangerous on any path where children are permitted to play. Heavy vehicles cross, these footpaths at list, and load across them at leisure. Ladies may be seen with their dresses bespattered with mud, thrown up by furious riding and driving in proximity to them. Nor is the nuisance confined to one street alone. Continually, nuisances are thrown across the foot pavement, which passers by may or may not avoid. Only yesterday evening, in Willis Street, a,boy might have been seen knocking dirty foot mats against the post of a verandah fronting a shop. Ido not impute blame to the police for these nuisances being permitted ; we are compelled to look to the authorities over the police. They are under" the Provincial Government; and as it is so generally understood that it is better the police should be under the control of the General Government, to note the present state of things is almost equivalent to concluding that the sooner so very undesirable an arrangement is put an end to the better for all parties concerned.A-Yours, &c., . Viator.