PAVING SIDE WALKS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1208, 6 December 1873, Page 2

PAVING SIDE WALKS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) , Sir,—ln the report of the procee_i»gs:of the City Council on the Ist inst. I note the.City Surveyor states neither Thames or Mangawai stone, is suitable for paving, hut that Melbourne sawri stone is the thing. Some twelve months since I was threatened under certain pains and penalties to pave in Queen-' street, and- although at the time protesting against the stone then used, and the only stone to be had, I was compelled to pave with Thames stone. Certain friends of mine were uncharitable enough to say there were personal interests in the Council then that were served in forcing the ratepayer to shell out. Now, sit-, is it probabfe that being condemned, they will have the audacity to ask me to pave over again with Melbourne stone (where a new interest may have been found). Why not first have had a trial and tested the durability of the stone; they objected to the really permanent and p\/"l^il thing—asphalt, not that as now beipg-v^W but that as in front of Messrs Whitaker ana Russell's offices. No, in the wisdom 01 Councillors etc., (? ignorance or interest), they make us pay double the price to make a botcn, and then find local iudustrya myth musi look abroad. Such i- life.—Yours «C.Whebls within. Wheals..