COMPLAINT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4597, 14 December 1875, Page 3

COMPLAINT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir.,—Will the Corporation, or the Provincial Government, or the Minister for Works, or the Grand Mogul, or whoever or whatever may be the responsible party or purties—for in this very much begoverned country it is difficult to say who is responsible for anything—turn his or their or its august attention to the disgraceful state of the footways of this flourishing city ? They are in a most shocking state ; here a bit of asphalte in tolerable preservation, there a stretch of worn-away asphalte. in which the lumps of granite protrude in a manner to render it a most excruciating exercise to walk over it; then some worn-away bricks, some sticking up and others sinking six inches in the ground; then a few flags, and lastly an extent of small granite pebbles, which seem to have been specially selected for the sharpness of their edges. AH this is very rough on young men on the look out for situations, hard-up ones (the soles of whose boots are as bare as their purses), loafers, and other deserving characters whose avocations lead them to be continually perambulating the streets. It is not pleasant when slowly parading along with flourishing stick and shoulders thrown back, thinking one is making an impression on those two pretty girls advancing towards us, to bring one's very best corn on the little toe of the right foot plump on to a granite boulder, projecting from the path; one can give vent to a muttered d—n, and limp past in deep abasement. Anyone who has been to Paris, or Brighton, will know what sort of footways can be made with asphalte properly prepared; the traffic of Wellington could never wear it ont.—l am, &c,