Borough Affairs.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 13, 10 July 1883, Page 2

Borough Affairs.

TO THE EDITOB OF THE STAB. Sib,— On reading your report of the Borough Council proceedings of last Thursday evening, those of us who reside in Port street were much disappointed at the decision of the Council in regard to our petition. We expected, at Jhe least, some kind of a favorable reply, such, for instance, as was suggested by our worthy Mayor, and embodied in the proposition of Cr Fowles, seconded by Cr Worsfold. We do not for one moment ignore the claims of others, for no doubt most of the scheduled works are urgent, but as we stated in our petition, we wished to draw the attention of the Council to the sum _ of money xre had spent in supplying the " timber for the present bridges and culverts—£43 — and previous to that we had doae work to nearly the same value by felling bush, clearing the road, and putting in bridges whic. lasted over three years. Now that is no small item for* three or fow individuals to contribute on 45 chains of road, which i» the length of Port street. We believe it to be without a parallel, and that is why we thought the Council, as a body, would have considered oar street to be one among the works to be done with the first instalment of the loan. We bad expected Cr Thompson to be there to speak for us, as he presented our petition, and knew all about our case- It seems very hard after spending so much money and labor during the past five years or more, still to have our families shut in during winter months, and have to pack in. all that we require. At present the road is really dangerous after nightfall, and to make it worse in coming but we have no crossing over the railway line. We have either to go into a dangerous ravine on the un« formed road east of the railway line, or through a swamp equally dangerous to Port's crossing. During the time I have lived here, in going out and in, I have had several narrow escapes, one very lately, when nothing but a merciful Providence saved me from either broken limbs or losing my life. Now it would not bo very nice for the- " Council to have aa action for damages to defend. If Cr Lewers would kindly step down and take tea with us some fine ovening, especially when there is a fresh in the Makino, we think even he would say our case was urgent as well as Warwick street. Bye-the-bye we wonder whether the"Council would let us make our street on the name terms. In conclusion we sincerely beg to thank our worlhy Mayor and Crs Fowles and Worsfold for speaking a word for us, and we still hope the Council ,will help us. — I am, &c, J. C. *RICHABDSON.