AN EYESORE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2563, 3 October 1893, Page 3

AN EYESORE.

TO THE EDITOU. Sir, —I desire, through the medium of your paper, to direct attention to what is certainly a glaring eyesore upon one of our most frequented roads. I refer to that dilapidated brick house not far from the Temuka Town Board office. Not only is the house offensive in appearance, but the grounds around it are in a wild state, and the fences spread half over the footpath. What was once a garden is simply a cattle trap, and the whole place in its present condition is a nuisance. It has been used for many months as a camping place for swaggers, and although presumably the owner has to pay sanitary rates, yet it is very evident the scavenger does not visit the place very regularly. If my memory serves me aright the property was sold some time ago, and the owner, a laboring man, was called upon by the Town Board to pull the building down, as it was in a dangerous condition. He subsequently forfeited his interest in the property, and since it has reverted to the original owner nothing more has been heard of the matter. Of course it is hard for a man to have an unremunerative property, but it is decidedly harder that the general public should be annoyed by it. If the Town Board have any authority in the matter they should certainly notify the owner, who is an absentee, to have the place put in order or else removed. With apoiogiea for trespassing on your space,—l am, etc., Citizen.