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Normal methods of gaining satisI personally, through monotonous penning, have gained what seems to be a good response to my pen-andbureaucrats on the Trust and Commission and their soft-soaping letwhich have made this letter necessary. It will be a long cold winter in these hardboard constructions if our situation, through the medium of your newspaper, is not made public. And if from the Housing Trust for a warm expression of feelings.
The McGonigle Family. (Hoping for Free CitizenThe people of Milltown have tried during the last four years to obtain playing fields for their children;
their attempts have met with little success. They were, however, given a small park, with a wall and a few concrete pipes strategically placed to stop any team games.
This token gesture got the Lisburn councillors ‘off the hook' but provided very little pleasure for the children: male youths do not derive much satisfaction from 'swinging' the night away.
There are, however, school playing fields, central to the area.
The children do play on there but a are constantly harrassed by the & #R.U.C. Indeed the R.U.C. as in; dividuals are very sympathetic to the children's cause which gives one some idea of the children's plight. What these harrassers continually forget is that it is the people, not the council, who own | these playing fields; it is the people who pay the taxes.
Their children have every right to a playground. For too long the § working class have helped to keep the Malone Road clique's children t playing in well-equipped parks (when they already have gardens | twice the size of Milltown's park)
while their own children stand around street corners.
Again the Milltown residents ar« trying to get something done to keep their children off the busy t streets. A petition is being drawn t up and will be sent round the area; + the Lisburn council meetings will be picketed and protest demonstrations will be arranged if neccessory. The land is their own;
they are determined to take it.
No apologetic councillor can help if children's lives are lost on the streets. The people are right.