TOLL OF THE DUST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 163, 20 January 1914, Page 2

TOLL OF THE DUST.

Members of the Pukekohe Chamber of Commerce, in common with all business mer, have lately been greatly concerned about the dust nuisance. On hot and windy days King street sends continuous chuda of dust into the shops and the damage that is done to gcods must be very materia! in the course of a single summer. This loss and disagreeablenesi in the fiot season i 3 outdone in winter by the main thoroughfare being nothing less than a mud alley. We are n?t prepared to condemn our public men, past or present, for this state of alfairs. King street probably carries more heavy and cutting traffic than any other highway in the district. It does not appear to us that watering the streets is a remedy. That, after all, is only an expensive make-shift. It do:s not appeal to is any more than does the suggestion to instal the out-of-date pars for the night-soil service, or the still more wasteful notion of a film of sixteen feet of metal on a muchused road. The remedy we suggest needs heavier expense at the beginning but will ba much cheaper and infinitely more satisfactory i.i the long run. It is to put a proper road through Harris street so as to relieve King street (f all the heavy and traction traffic, and to properly at pha 11 King street. Give the settlers in the outskirts ot the borough a good Harris street and give all people and the tradesmen a modern Kirg street. Some ratepayers may hold up their hand 3 in affright at such a costly suggestion, hut we are convinced that there could ba nothing more costly than the present short-, ightcd policy oi patch, l'he gospel oi the "Times" 1: to make I'ukekohe approach as nearly a:, possible to an idea! country borough. This will not he accomplished this year or next, but we have a 3ure and certain hope that the ambition will ;;o:ncr or later be realised.