FOOTPATHS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 61, 31 October 1885, Page 3

FOOTPATHS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAB.

Bm,— l observe in your issue of yesterday an Footpaths, but cannot acknowledge the force of your remarks. By the schedule of works certain roads are arranged to be constructed at an estimate cost of £6 per chain— Uttle enough. Several of these works require pile -driving, bridges, and culverts. Take'; for instance, Hobson street, whicntwitiithe pile driving operations, will cost considerably over £6 per but by your reasoning it is only «ititled to £6. Now, I hold that the several works scheduled for should be firstt'ipbmpleted, with the necessary pile driving, bridges, culverts, &c., and then any surplus can be used for Footpaths. By your mode of reasoning you, allow £202 as still available for Manchester street, but in this you make a mistake of £100 ; the amount would be only £102. But as I have pointed out, no apportionment of the surplus can take place until all the scheduled works are first done In the matter of the Manchester street bridge, where £150 is specially scheduled, it will never do to appropriate another £150 from the roads construction account, and the several Councillors who had to do with this voto are personally liable for this misappropriation of the loan funds. — I am, &c, Bstegher. Feilding, 30th October, 1885.