BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 92, 17 January 1885, Page 2

BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THB STA.B. Sib, — Although I was not present at the meeting, called by Mr Arnott on Saturday night last, I quite concur in your leading article on ..the doings of our Borough Councillors, and the only fault I have to find with it is-^you dealt with them too leniently, especially where you say that you -believe -they have endeavored to act their parts honestly and sincerely. Now I: should like to know where the honest part of their proceedings comes in, as it is well-known that everything that they have done up to the present time has been done to benefit themselves individually, and, I am sorry to say, to the injury of their neighbors in some cases. Now we will take one case only ; that is King street ; the Chair- ; man of the Public Works Committee takes upon himself to form a footpath.^^ in front of his wife's property, at a'-^^*-cost of about £10 to the ratepayers, • and this he does without even consulting his colleagues. In doing this he has just flooded my properly and Mr Aitken's every rain we get. I have spoken to two of the Committee about it, and they have promised to bring it before the Council ; but they have not done so, therefore X think it is quite time that Borne ratepayer called a meeting, and I thank Mr Arnott for having done so. — I am, &p., Edwin "Wobsfoxd. Feilding, 15th January, 1885.