Please wait. Contacting image service... loading

Article text

THE WANTS OF NORTH COTTESLOE
To the Editor
Sir,--May I be permitted through the
agency of your widely-read columns to
draw the attention of the Cottesloo Roads
Board to the neglected condition of that
part of its district bounded by Grant
street and North-road. The settlement
in this district during the past twelve
months has been something wonderful,
and one cannot marvel at it, as a
prettier or more healthy locality it would
be hard to find. The hills fronting the
grand expanse of the Indian Ocean need
only to be made accessible by the forma
tion of roads and footpaths and in a
very short time would he covered with
villa residences. I know for a positive
fact that owners in this locality are only
awaiting means of access to their land
before building, while. even under the
present conditions, several owners have
entered into contracts to build. What
is required is a road from Marmion-road
to the beach. At the present time there
is no way but over the eternal sand and
scrub, while if Grant-street were metal
led to the beach it would give residents
a hard road from either Cottesloe or
Congdon-street. I understand it is the
intention of the Cottesloe Roads Board
to expend .£100 planting trees in the
more favoured parts of the district, an
intention which the residents of
North Cottesloo emphatically protest
against, while there is so much better
use to which the money could be put. A
protest to this effect has already been
made to the Board, and I trust that
those few lines will be the means of
arousing the representatives of the North
Cottesloe district to a sense of their
duties, and that they will endeavour,
both for the sake of the residents who
have put up with sand and scrub long
enongh,"and for the progress of the dis
trict, to give some facilities in the way
of roads or footpaths, and not squander
money in planting trees, which can very
easily wait until people have roads to
walk on.-Yours, etc..
ARTHUR G. TYLER.
North Cottesloo .june 19.
$