CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4301, 22 December 1892, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Street Loafers,

j |TO THE EDITOR, WAIBARAPA TIMES.] Sib,—l was glad to notice by a paragraph in yesterday's issue that complaints of the manner in which noisy crowds are allowed to block the . footpaths in Queen Street had reached your ears, and that you had published your informant's protest. Let me add also my word of complaint. The nuisance is a very serious one, and the annoyance to those who, like myself, live in Queen Street is considerable, Apart from the personal unpleasantneps to residents, the gunday loafers who make the Post Office corner their haunt, give visitors to Masterton a bad impression of our town, The personalities the' idle crowd indulge in and the obstruction they offer to passers-by in their blookade of the footpath ought to be at once stopped. It is said that the police complain that they are powerless without the support of a new aod special Borough by-law. I can hardly think that they are so restricted in their duties thoy wish us to infer; and I Tiolieve that they could offect material improvement if they were willing to suppress firmly behaviour tending to create a nuisance. But, if their excuse for inactivity is justifiable, then the Masterton Borough Council ought to take immediate steps to remedy the present unseemly condition of things. The Salvation Army, praiseworthy as it may be in many ways, is in my opinion responsible to a considerable extent for the crowding and scuffling at the Post Office cornor. If it would simply make its parade of the town and then go straight to the Barracks where devotees could join it, things in- general would be very much quieter for peaceable citizens, lam, etc,

J.H.T, Masterton, 20th December, [This letter is held over from yesterday's issue, owing to pressure on ourspace,-ED.W.D.T.]