BOROUGH ELECTIONS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 33, 3 September 1892, Page 2

BOROUGH ELECTIONS.

TO THK EDITOR OF THESTAK. Siu, — I was glad to see by your leader on Thursday last that yon " spoke up " with reference to the coming elections for the Borough Council. It is high time, as you point out, that Councillors should not content themselves with the mere administration of the humdrum affairs of the Borough. It is growing, and requires much in the way of better roads, more footpaths, and some sort of attempt at a system of draining off the surface water. No doubt a loan will be required, and it is for the Council to take the necessary eteps to raise it. Visitors to the town from Palmerston, Marton, and elsewhere complain of the dirty state of our streets, and of the difficulty, not to say impossibility of getting about dry shod after rain has fallen. The Eimbolton road, I think, from the Square to beyond the Mill can take the cake for being about the dirtiest of our dirty roads. The traffic over it is heavier than over any other, yet year after year no effective steps are taken to improve it.' Foot passengers are not considered in the slightest degree, they have simply to flounder through the mud and — our Councillors would perhaps add — be thankful. The road should be widened considerably and the centre raised from it present flatness. A narrow footpath, say five or si? feet wide, should be constructed to give some sort of access for foot passengers in wet weather to that thickly populated and growing portion of the town. The new Council must face the urgent necessity of improving the unsatisfactory condition of our roads without further delay, and it would be well for the burgesses to seriously con sider the subject, and by their votes on polling day to show they had done so The subject of drainag. I p ropose to d j with in a second letter. I am, etc., Nok Candidate,