VINCENT COUNTY COUNCIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 816, 7 December 1877, Page 3

VINCENT COUNTY COUNCIL.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE DDNSTAN TIMES.) Sir : — I see that.the County is in a very healthy condition being able to put LIO,OOO in Bank after all the roads and bridges it has constructed ; truly, we are better off than we were under the Provincial government The Alexandra and Speargrass faction must give in now that our Representative was right in voting for Abolition in preference to Separation, but I suppose it is too much to expect from the infallibles an acknowledgment of their error, I think it rather mean ofjthe Council to reduce the Chairman’s salary seeing that the County, in a great measure, owes its success, I had nearly said—existence, to him, his services are well worth L4OO a year to it, and I think if it was put to the vote of the County electors they would say so. 1 see that he has been again elected by the unanimous vote of the Council—only fancy Councillor Colclough, and the late Mayor of Cromwell voting for Pyke—Whatever will the Cromwell Argus say ? 1 am glad that the Council did not adopt Colelough’s motion about the purchase of the Kawarau bridge ; one would think that he was paid by the proprietors to make a good bargain tor them, and also in the case of M'Laughlin’s punt, 1 cannot see what claim’he has for compensation, except that the Government were foolish enough to compensate Stuart, Oomwell, and M‘Pherson, Clyde. Those men put their punts on the rivers to make money, and no doubt have done so, and have been protected by Government for years. The proposed traffic bridge across the Manuherikia at Alexandra will be money thrown away, as it leads nowhere, unless they also erect one across the Molyneux at Itahan Bend. The river is very narrow there and I think both bridges could be erected for less money than the Clyde bridge cost, but there would be another claim for punt compensation. Confound the punts, that they may he all sunk and replaced by bridges is the fervent prayer of

A Mixer. Flapdoodle Point, Molyneux River, December 4, 1877.