Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 121, 9 April 1892, Page 2

Correspondence

MR LUCAS IN REPLY. TO TIIK KIM TOR OF THK STAN. Silt, — Iv your issue of the 7th instant is ii letter signed "Harbor 13oard " in which the writer criticises my action over two pieces of work now bomg done on the Block, and which he much regrets. I 1 think his regrets have yet to come. j First, we will take the Cheltenham Cross road. I admit that the road in question • is probably only used by one settler, or I will say it is for his exclusivo use, and I also admit thai; the Kiwitea Koad Board has receiyed from the sections now occupied by Mr Chssold something like £70 in rate?. I. do not know what Mr Chssold pays now (I will see the first tnno I am in Feilding) but I know that Mr Wray paid £9 5s per year. Well, sir, in consideration of the rates which the Board was receiving from those sections I (as Warden; always intended to make this bit of road, (bat. sir, I am afraid that my good intentions wont to that plilCO whoi'O the streots are paved with such) until Mr Chssold waited on the Hoard and Htated that as the Board had received nearly £70 or £80 from the sections ho thought it was about time the Board spent a little of it on the road loading to them. This the Hoard agreed with, and that, I consider, was only right. I believo the exact length of the piece of road is nino chains, but we will say 10, the whole cost of which will probably amount to a little over £30, of which the Board will got a rofuud of one-third from the Manchester Road Board. After paying something like £70 in rates these sections got a return of something less than £20. That surely, is not " red hot favoritism." As to the raau said to be on by the day, this I simply deny. The man working on Pollock's road has a small contract. There is no day work going on at present in the Harbor Board Block, and, further, it was let to him by the Engineer at my suggestion. If your correspondent will give tho name of the settler, or, better still, forward the settler himself, who will do the same kind of formation which is now being done oc Pollock's road for 10s per chain, to the Board's office, I will guarantee him as much work as will last him for years to come, lv conclusion, sir, I do not mind criticism, but let it bo honest, and Ido like a bit of fair play. I am, etc., G. R. Lucas.