WELLINGTON TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1916, Page 5

WELLINGTON TOPICS.

A DIRTY, CAPITAL. (From Our Divji Wellington, October 19*

"In very few of the activities of munfi cip.il life is public co-operation more essential than in the effort which has for its goal a clean city." With this admirable truism, expressed in quite its best style, the Evening 'Post opens an appeal to the good people of Wellington to set about "swatting the fly." Its intentions ere excellent, but if it really; wishes to arouse its readers to a proper senso of their eivie responsibilities -it should begin at the beginning, by awakening thein to the fact, obvious to every, travelled visitor, that their city is tba dirtiest centre o| population in New; Zealand, Blessed with the most invigorating climate in the- Dominion, cf which half-a-dozen .samples may be obtained in a single day, and with a hundred other natural .advantages cndraanyi acquired privileges which ought l» make it the worthy capital of a great country, it would become in veritable pofthole but for',it3 cyclonic winds and its splendid drah'.ag; system. This is> the subject on which the outsider has a right to speak, ■became he lias come tangible interest, in the chief city of hi» country, «^,because.the WclUn'gtpii people themselves seem wholly unconscious of the conditions in which they live. There may be by-ways and alleys in Auckland a;, squalid and filthy as' some of the principal «tr'cc'o in Wellington are, but th.=V2 are certainly none in Christehurfh or Duscdin. Probably for an ipiprovcmsni upon thi3 shocking state of affaire Wellington will have to wait for iho -big shake" the geologists are promising it in the not far distant future^