THE COUNTY ENGINEER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 68, 30 April 1943, Page 2

THE COUNTY ENGINEER

You may talk about the troubles and the turmoH and the strife Attendant on the vagaries and trial of business life, There are many knotty problems to be solved within a year, And there's no one knows that better than the County Engineer. He is mot by friends and enemies and deluged with demands For crossings, roads and bridges when they know full well his hands Are occupied hy many things but still they think it queer If they're told to go to hades by the County Engineer. He is mercilessly slandered by the men he must refuse, And from those who've never seen him he is subject to abuse, All odds and ends still lacking the ridings there and here Are held a,s evidence against the County Engineer. If by chance a thing accomplished is unquestionably good, He doesn't even then receive, the credit that lvc should. For, it's so the beggar ought to on six hundred pounds a year, Is the cry that greets the triumphs of the County Engineer. Though the roads we. tread. arc sticky and the hills we climb are stilT, While wc curse I've County Council let us all remember if We'd settled in this district with the hardy pioneer We would realise 1 the value of The County Engineer.