THE SILVERSTREAM EMBANKMENT.
To the Editor. Sir, —Your Mosgiel correspondent, like a good many more amateur engineers, states that the Silverstream is again to be formed, and that it is becoming an animal arrangement. He would Jdie the Government to go to the fountain head, and do for others what they don’t think worth their while to do for themselves —that is, save their ground from washing away. New, sir, 1 take as much interest in the Silverstream as anyone, and if the settlers wish to make a job of the stream, let them buckle to and secure their own banks. Your correspondent must be a new-ebum in the district, or hejwould have known that, with the exception of a small expenditure last year, the stream has not had anything done to it for years. I should not have troubled you, but we are losing our self-reliance, and instead of putting our shoulders to the wheel, we cry, even in our prosperity, “ Government, government, do this or that for us 1”—I am, &c., Settler. Mosgiel, December 7.
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Evening Star, Issue 3680, 8 December 1874, Page 3
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177THE SILVERSTREAM EMBANKMENT. Evening Star, Issue 3680, 8 December 1874, Page 3
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