BOROUGH STREETS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1938, Page 4

BOROUGH STREETS

(To the Editor.) Si r —I have lately been in many (owns but I never saw such untidy streets as here. Could you please tell me when the Council are going to give Cole Street footpaths a bit of a clean up? I have lately seen elderly women on their knees doing their best to make the footpaths tidy like their house frontages. Surely the Council don’t expect ratepayers to do their work and nore so it should not be necessary for a Councillor to live in this street to nave it kept tidy. I am, etc, VISITOR. Masterton, November 7, 1938.

The Borough Engineer, Mr C. R. Mabson, referring to the above letter, said that two visitors this week and one last week had told him that Masterton streets compared more than favourably with any in other parts oi New Zealand. Some miles of grass borders were mown by the borough, which had one man engaged on this task throughout the year and during the flush of the season a second man was taken on. Mr Mabson pointed out that 'i number of streets were tar-seal-ed the full width of the road and a certain number of men were detailed to clean up paths. As there were about fifty miles of paths to bo kept in order the men could not be everywhere. At this time of the year the growth of weeds was particularly quick and a weed an inch high could be a foot high a week later.