BRIDGE OVER THE MOLYNEUX AT ALEXANDRA.
(to theeditor op the dunstan Times.) Sir :—You will allow mo to say a few words in support of my last in regard of the bridge over the Molyneux at Alexandra. Since the Dunstan District has been proclaimed a Gold-field, the Government has extracted from us about Half a million Pounds Sterling, in the shape of Taxes, Gold Duty, and what have we got in return--about fifty thousand pounds worth of bad roads, a jail, &o. It seems to me that the men, forming the Government at the time the Dunstan Goldfields was'proclaimed, had the experience, and we had the money, but now we have changed hands, those that govern us, have got the money, anil we have got the experience, we have been done clean—it has paid them bitter, than it has paid us. I don’t think it is asking too much from the Government to erect us -a bridge over the Molyneux at Alexandra, out of this year’s revenue, derived from this district, certainly 'the money they have extracted from us in former years, is gone—But where? Your’s, &c., W. H. Hastedt. Alexandra, April 25, 1877.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 784, 27 April 1877, Page 3
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