BE BANK STEET PLOUGHING.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2532, 3 May 1881, Page 2

BE BANK STEET PLOUGHING.

[to the editor] Sir, —In cases where citizens wish to improve their property, if they encumber the footpaths with bricks or dig them up they are compelled by law to keep a light burning ’twixt sunset and sunrise, as a precaution against accidents. If no light, down goes the citizen for ten shillings and costs. Can you inform me the “ why and wherefore ” householders in Bank street (north) have been kept in a state of mud and filth for the last three weeks by men ploughing the path one day and carting the soil two or three days after. Why is there no light, when even in daylight it is unapproachable, And the householders have to trespass on their neighbors’backyards in order to reach their homes ? What makes me so sore on the subject is that on Saturday night a friend called to see me, and when he had waded through the mire and climbed to the door he was covered with a yellow clay fourteen inches deep. I had to scrape and wash him like a horse (?) before he was presentable, and he refused to budge an inch that night, saying, if he did, his death would lie at my door.—l am, &c., T. L. B.