A STORM IN A TEAPOT.
[to the editor.]
Sir —ln your Saturday's issue I saw a report of the meeting held here on Friday night to oppose the Okuku water race crossing the road, as it would injure the formation of a good dray road, &c. As to the injury the road would receive by the company's flume crossing, it is simply nothing, as the span between legs at crossing is 25 feet, and the height 12 feet. If the inhabitants of Dillman's Town are anxious about the welfare of the place, instead of throwing every petty obstacle in the way, they should try to enco'irage the Okuku Water Race Company in their efforts to bring cheap water on the diggings. If the few storekeepers and butchers that formed the meeting on Friday night were to form themselves into a committee to construct water closets, they would be of some service to this overgrown pigstye, as a more filthy hamlet is not to be found south of the line.—l am, &c, Fair Play. Dillman's Town.
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Kumara Times, Issue 302, 12 September 1877, Page 2
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