OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1941, Page 6

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

PARKING FACILITIES (To the Editor.) Sir, —“Live and Let Live'’ is to be congratulated although his is only one more voice “crying in the wilderness.” The residents concerned in Lincoln Road have already voiced their protests to our civic authorities and I say definitely not one of them is interested. This nuisance continues and at times I have seen traffic held up at both ends of the street due to lorries double-banked and manoeuvring in this street. Besides being a nuisance, it is a distinct danger to other moving traffic and pedestrians, and, apart from all these annoyances, why should a residential area and a particularly busy street be permanently allotted as a parking area? I sincerely trust that some citizen will accept the request of “Live and Let Live” and give an opinion through your columns of the legal rights of ratepayers in this area in obtaining some redress of the nuisance created. Thanking you for valuable space—l am. etc., ANOTHER OBJECTOR. Masterton,’ June 24.

THE RAILWAY YARDS (To the Editor.) Sir,—l note that the member for Masterton (Mr J. Robertson) has been advised by the Acting-Minister of Railways (Mr Nash) that the watersupply for the stock yards at the Masterton Railway Station is to be improved. This, however, is only the stock yards to be improved. What about the cleaning yard? That is where the fly trouble comes from and that is the yard that should be improved as it is a disgrace the way the stock trucks are cleaned,- which means that people loading stock have to walk through all the manure that is cleaned out of the trucks. 1 do not blame the man cleaning the trucks for this. From what I can see of the yards, he has no other place in which to clean the manure out of trucks. I was amazed to see the conditions that man is working under at the present time and I say it is time the Railways Department made the cleaning yard larger by putting in a cleaning line, so that the manure Is not cleaned out on the line which the people have to walk on when they are loading stock, tints making the conditions better for everybody, including the man doing the cleaning. I think the trouble regarding the yards would then be overcome and also the fly trouble. I hope the member for Masterton will go and see for himself and will take further steps in the matter. —Thanking you for space.—l am, etc., DISGUSTED. Masterton. June 23.