PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 333, 17 November 1875, Page 3

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,— Prior to last Town Board election' you advocated borrowing money for town improvements to be paid so as to leave to future settlers, an equal share of its repayment. I voted for four members of the present Town Board, thinking them likely men to carry out such a measure. Now? sir* what is the result of their action up to the present time P Simply to improve the Strand by laying in a stock of shells for its maintenance, while in other quarters patching seems to be the order of the day. Grey street is favoured with a paltry path instead of a road through its unhealthy swamp, and one out cf many of the receiving depdts for water on Cameron Road is getting up instead of commencing at Wharf and Haring* ton street, and forming in full breadth, with a footpath on both sides to No. X Avenue,where the General Government has done to recently, and a footpath continued from there to end of town boundary. In forming Earington etreet, to kill two birds with one throw, by filing in the additional chain of road on wharf, so as to give sufficient room for drays to pass each other, instead of a single track as at present. Bpring, Willow, Elizabeth, and Durham streets want laying off and forming, so as a carter can bring a load of wood or anything eke to the people reild* - ing in snob streets without endangering the lives or limbs of man or beast, as at present isthe case. No ratepayer with a conscience can object to the above-mentioned improvements; and if such bo carried out by the present Board it , will be a lasting credit to them.—l am, &0., A Yoicb fsom thi Swamp nr GbEI BTBIIT* Tauranga, November 16,1875.