A COMPLAINT FROM KENSINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 3621, 30 September 1874, Page 2

A COMPLAINT FROM KENSINGTON.

To the Editor. Sir, Engineering has in this our aee conduced very much to the comfort and convemence of the people at present inhabitants of the globe; but still there are some chosen few who apparently shall not be sharers of the benefits derived from this beautiful science, and we poor unfortunates in this township are counted among those select few. bold and silver in plen*y*has been literally thrown away in futile attempts to rid us of this depotic master-water ; but the result (at present strikingly visible) has undoubtedly not realised the expectations of any of Ua settlers, and I doubt much whether the inspectmg engineer is satisfied that the object in view has been attained. * Thanks to oar representative, through whose means our most parental Government has again opened is purse and advanced U3 !,! believe. LIOO for the sole object of ndding us of floods, and it now remains with those m power to spend it in the most ff° UB f aanner - T Kis ii the point which, through your kindness, I wish to bring before the public. “ ■ At present we have no less than five floodgatea, and only two of these are doing their dut y * ufc fc be one that has to carry the mam body of water from Cargill road, has not even an outlet, To give egress to the water from this road the money has been voted, I believe. The present channel carry£ mg the water is undoubtedly not large enough to carry off what goes into it; and yet, 1 am told, it is proposed to cut another channel from the gasworks floodgate, to run along the Anderson s Bay road aquarter-of-a-milc or more, round corners and bends be”e it f^ 0 ?. 68 tko P r «sent channel—to’add more to the already overflowing watercourses. Mow, an Almighty Being hasgiven .us sense and enabled us thereby g to rectify “ 8e Kttle deficiency f n fj U u e - ? work8 > at «l in this in- , e » d think, one watercourse being iTu 11 t0 hold the water, Lothe? should be cut, and this too a straight one, so as not to leave obstructions to the water in the shape of bends, twistings and windings, •c., for the stra'gbter the course the greater the speed. Hoping you will kindly insert this, and that it may lead to an agitation in favor of bringing this grievance to a aatisfoctory end I am, &c., * WITOI Forbury, September 29.