A SUGGESTION.

Shannon News, 9 May 1922, Page 3

A SUGGESTION.

(To the Editor.)

* Sir,—While walking along the streets of Shannon the other day I noticed the Beautifying Society had commenced operations, which is very gratifying. It will need a great amount of labour to make Shannon look beautiful, but we all know that Rome was not built in a day. So we do not expect to see flowers blooming before the seeds - are in the 1 ground, but we all hope to see in the not far distant future tidy, pleasant-todook-at streets; but it needs the combined efforts of the Beautifying Society and the people in general, children included, to get a satisfactory- result. The day that I noticed the work already begun, my feet became entangled in what seemed to be a whole newspaper (I hope it was not the Shannon paper, sir), and in looking around there were quite a number of odd pieces lying about on the pavement and road. A day later the breeze had blown them over the road on the grass. It seemed to me that while one section of the conlmunity was doing its best to “tidy up,” another was doing the opposite. I refer to the school children’s lunch wrappings, mostly. A large number take their lunch, but do not, remain in the school grounds. They saunter along the streets, and when they have eaten enough to satisfy their hunger they drop the crusts and paper on the pavement. I know the Borough Council has done a great deal, but may l suggest that they place one or two wire baskets as rubbish receptacles in places the children can reach, say one by the post office and one at the corner of Plimmer Terrace and Street, As a further suggestion, perhaps the headmaster of the school would not mind telling the children to put in the basket any rubbish they may have. ..Of course 1 , I am presuming the Council will see the need of some such receptacle.—l am, etc., ■ OBSERVER.