OUT-OF-DATE METHODS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1915, Page 8

OUT-OF-DATE METHODS.

[To Ttie Editor Stratford Post.] Sir, —Having read Mr M ilson s letter re the new channelling, and also nir worthy Mayor’s reply, may I he permitted to make a few remarks? in the first place, although not posing is an engineering expert, I say that the new channelling as constructed is mt of date, and although useful as i gutter for stables, etc., has long been deemed a failure as a street channel. Experience has taught local bodies that main thoroughfares cannot be kept satisfactorily cleaned by flushing, and so have abandoned the narrow channel in favor of a wide, flat water table, that allows of a broom being pushed along. Again, if the rainfall in the district is so heavy that a twelve inch kerhing is necessary, to avoid the danger of flooding the footpaths, where is the wisdom of our six inch stormwater drains, which have to-day in places, full three inches of sand at tin* month. As for talking of Broadway being unsightly in the matter of debris, etc.. Wing about, what could he more so than the present appearance of the footpaths, ■where the rough and broken edge of the asphalt is showing, even in some places to a height of six inches above the kerhing. As for the saving in using the concrete removed for paving the pound, f think* it will be a ’airly heavy paving hill, when treble-hand-

ling, cartage and re-laying, etc., is considered. Hut all this is just tinone point considered, the second, and perhaps more important one, is the absolute neglect of the residential area,while all this work is being centred on Broadway. Why, within two minutes walk of our main thoroughfare we have grass growing on, the footpaths to a height of three feet, and -,o in a greater or lesser degree right through the Borough, with the exception of the central square of the town. I certainly saw a man cutting a strip with a scythe one day during the past week, but with tinexception, no step is being made to alter this condition of things. Surely our ratepayers are long suffering Trusting tin’s may cause some of our townfolk to awake to their duties as citizens, and thanking you in anticipation.—l am, etc., V. LIINDON. Cordelia Street, January 18, 1915.