THE BABY COMPETITION.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1917, Page 6

THE BABY COMPETITION.

To the Editor. Sir, —I note from your issue this morning that there is to be 110 reply to any letters on the subject, but the committee is willing to give any information. The secretary and committee have seemingly adopted a peculiar attitude in the face of the matter being one of keen public interest. It. is stated tha.t the secretary has carried the same peculiar decision to the length of failing even to reply to the offer made by the Taranaki Amusements, Ltd., To treat it mildly, this is a most discourteous manner in which to treat the company's offer, and calls for an immediate public explanation.—l am. etc., PROTEST. Xew Plymouth, 4/7/17. PUBLIC OOXV EXIENCE, To the Editor. Sir, —The roving spirit of your correspondent, "Traveller," may have led him to venture as far as Inglewood or ei'en Hawera and he may have seen the public conveniences of those towns, but he fails to convince one that their existence justifies the planting of one in Brougham street, about a chain away from the very centre of the town. The Inglewood convenience is not on tlie street or the pathway hut on the wide area of the Railway Reserve and is shrouded by trees. The centre of Hawera is at the intersection of High and Princess streets. The convenience is near the water tower on a garden plot belonging to the Borough and is separated by a whole iblock from the centre of the town. The street leading to it is very wide and is merely a side street with comparatively little traffic. In Brougham street, however, the convenience must be placed either in the middle or at the side of tho street. If in the middle it would block traffic, if at the side it would become a nuisance from the effluvia to the neighboring offices. Moreover it mould be particularly offensive to ladies and children to have to pass a place where all day long Europeans, Maaris, and half-drunks would be entering and emerging. Another question is whethej there is to be an attendant. If 60, the cost to the borough and the ratepayers will toe considerable and not warranted in present conditions. If no attendant 13 provided the resulting conditions may be imagined.—l «d., etc., ~ A "TBAVELLER."