Te Kuiti Streets.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 137, 8 March 1909, Page 5

Te Kuiti Streets.

I TO THE EDiTOR. [ Sir, I read with not a little surprise I in your is* <uc of March Ist a letter from the |«-n of W. F. Franklin, and » though I agree with him that carters, | butchers boys and hoodlums of all classes should not ride or drive on our foot pa I lis 1 contend that he has no right to put the blame on the County Council. These people who break the law in this way can be prosecuted [ under the "Police Offences Act." and we have a constable stationed in Tc Kuiti, though being a stranger in your midst I have not yet made his I acquaintance. Though I have not met jj the constable I have endeavoured to make myself acquainted with the condition? of the township and County Council, and consider that if we had ! had a little rain recently, W. F. Frank- \ lin would have reason to sing that t body's praises rather than write in the strain he did. 1 presume \V. F. Franklin is a resident of the town, and he must surely- remember that when the loan pro|iosal was first mooted it was not without a good deal of trouble that the Chairman of the Council and member for the Te Kuiti Riding got the ratepayers to sanction the loan. Had the loan been for £IO,OOO and not been expended in the most business-like manner, I think W. F. Franklin would hove some cause for complaint, but seeing that only £2,000 was borrowed and there has been no rain for nearly a month, I consider he has none, and that the Council, and the Chairman in particular, deserve every credit for the manner in which the money has so far been expended. I am, etc., FULL OF DUST.