COUNTRY MUNICIPALITIES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 290, 15 November 1867, Page 3

COUNTRY MUNICIPALITIES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNSTAN TIMES. Sin, —I presume that the chief oh ject in creating Municipalities for the gold-fields was to give authority to a certain number of men to enforce laws and regulations made for the benefit of all; such men of course to be elected to hold office ; when the public return a person to represent their interests in a Municipal Council, they naturally expect that peison to enforce, independent of the favor or favors of any individual all the laws and regulations made by such Council I believe it is the duty of a Town Council to cause all public streets to be kept in order, and to prevent any encroachment being made upon them. When land is bought from the Government, the purchaser, I deem, ought to confine his improvements within the limits of his own allotment, without appropriating to his use government ground. The land on the western side of Cromwell, has been sold, and buildings which were several feet on the main street or government road, the Council warned the owners to have them removed, but they have taken no steps to prevent new buildings being erected and encroaching on the main street; the rate-payers have but little ground as yet to complain of the men they have returned to watch over their interests, but if one little irregularity be allowed to creep in, others will soon follow, and country municipalities will become neithsr more nor less than a contemptible farce. Through your columns, I throw a hint to the Town Council of Cromwell, and although this may not be exactly a question of interest to your general readers as is to those resI ident at Cromwell. | i remain, 1 Watchman.