THAMES AFFAIRS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5090, 18 February 1927, Page 4

THAMES AFFAIRS.

A HUMOROUS SUMMARY. Agatha Green, the writer of the “Humour” column in the Thames Star, comments on Thames affairs as follows:— Oh I Thames is having a bad old time. There is trouble all alopg the line.. Rates are rising thick and fast, and ratepayers say it cannot last. When last year the rates were raised the news it verily left them dazed. But while there’s life there’s hope, they said, cheer up, ye people, you 11 soon be dead. The sewerage scheme would soon be through, though it might not go to Tararu, and soon their troubles would be over and the Borough Council .would be in clover. But, alas! alack ! they’ve found out now the quarry has cost them flftoen thou’, the plant and gear it will not go more than a hundred yards or so, and unless it gets in March adjusted the Council’s finance will be busted, and the Auditor will surely say : “Gentlemen, you must each five hundred pay, because, you see, a big amount has been taken from another account,, and as this is not quite right, you know, I must ask you to cough up the dough.” Our Harbour Scheme is under wav, but people say it will not pay because the boat has been forsaken and people by the roads are taken. Fifty out e,f sixty thou’ has been spent, but up to now the dredge has cost them lots of tin to make a hole to rest it in, and unless it hurries up somehow Ben Gilmer says he’ll get a scow and take the Rangitoto off the rcuteski, and then we’ll all be in the soupski. Although we’re not as happy as can be, we hope that soon will Mr Danby make the dredge throw up the mud, and let us see it’s not a dud, and if the quarry comes a cropper and puts no stone into the hopper, Mr Rhodes, before it’s sold, will go and find a patch of gold, and then no longer he’ll be sorry for the cost of Waiotahi Quarry.