CROMWELL TOWN COUNCIL

Dunstan Times, Issue 322, 26 June 1868, Page 3

CROMWELL TOWN COUNCIL

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Council was held here on Monday evening last. The Mayor and Councillors Whetter, Kidd, Sraitham, and Edwards were present. The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. " A letter was read from Messrs. Duncan fd Sharkey, requesting competent persons be appointed to inspect their mining work i. jjs on the bank of the Kawarau river, at the war of the Council Chambers. Resolved, upon themotion of Cr. Edwards, seconded by Cr. Smitham, That the Town Clerk inform Messrs. Duncan and Sharkey that the Council will appoint two persons to inspect their workings they Messrs Duncan and Sharkey to pay the expense of their so dt ing, Resolved upon the motionof Cr. Edwards, seconded by Cr. Smitham, That the Town Clerk write to His Honor the Superintendent and inform him that they trust he will favorably receive Mr. Loughman's offer as to the commonage question as it will so materially benefit the district. It wasrordered that the account of Messrs Haggitt and Haggitt' Solicitors, be paid. A vote of thanks to tho chair concluded the meeting.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE We do not identify ourselves with the opinions that may be expressed by our correspondents. THE ROADS. (TO THE EDITOR OF TH» - DCKSTAN TIMES.) Sir,—l read in your paier of about a fortnight back an article on the desirability of letting out the making an \ repairing of our roads by contract. I eut rely approve of your ideas on those matters, and think that were effect given to them alarge saving would result to the country. 1 consider the pjesent system of "surfacemen" as now employed in repairing the roads, only a waste of money, and giving encouragement to a lot of lazy loafers, whom nobody but the Government would employ. I have been watching since I read your article the men employed between this and Cromwell, and find they go to work about 10 o'clock in the morning, and leave off between half past three and four in the afternoon, and I am sure that there is not two good hours' work (.one a day by any one of these men. Their mode of repairing and filling in places is ridiculous, and in many cases the ruts and holes are only made worse. Between Clyde and Black's the same system is being pursued, as witness the ridiculously little amount of work performed daily.by the road party atJCkatto Cieek. I hope, sir, that the Secretary for Land and Works, when he reads this] will make inquiries into the absurd system of road management in this district, and discharge the 'a;y surface men at once, and let out the repairing of the roa 's by contract, when we shall have work done for our money I am &c. TRAVELLER Cromwell, June 22, IS6B.