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Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 151, 1 June 1877, Page 5

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— One can hardly help feeling amused at the dispute between bur two most prominent Councillors— the leaders of the factions — reported in your last issue. Honesty of purpose seems going a-begging ; it can't find a habitation? Each denies the other's claim to it, and the Mayor sits impotent to quell the disturbance, perhaps rightly judging it best to let it quell itself. But Councillor Cramond, if he has not an honesty of purpose, at least has a tenacity that is commendable. His footpath to the private school could find no seconder, but he can afford to let the footpath go to the winds if he can carry the motion he has given notice of, to gravel the same street clown the middle. Councillor Dunne should have gone in for having his street formed and gravelled ; but his honesty of purpose only went as far as a footpath. Surely Mr Cramond does not think he can hoodwink his fellow-Coun-cillors into forming and gravelling a street like Charles.street. To do so would simply be a throwing away of money. And money will be required, as he himself pointed out, for the streets near the railway station. He should see that he put himself in the position of having it said that his honesty of purpose is again very apparent— to raise the value of property in that street. For traffic there is none upon it, and Councillor Cramond knows it as well as any man. The street past bis door was formed and gravelled some time ago, and except so far as the weather has aged it, the gravel looks as new and fresh as the day it was put on. These works, although they may be lasting ones, aie by no means necessary, and it is to be hoped the Council will not allow Mr Cramond to carry his motion. In fact, ho ought to withdraw it. — I am, &c, Citizen.