BOROUGH COUNCILLORS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 19 July 1917, Page 2

BOROUGH COUNCILLORS.

(To the Editor}. Sir, —It is evident that our Mayor nd Councilors attend the Council meetings quite unprepared, (business take af.l their time, mid at tlie last moment some of them squeeze tlieir brains to find something to propose other less thoughtful are ready ito second anything, 'but if by chance the Ma voir is averse to any of tliem., tho time is not opportune to settle everything and hiis decisions become final These proceedings are not satisfactory and our town, instead of progressing, is going bac-k to its primitive slate. Enough has 'b-een said on tho past hasty decisions. "Let them roar, says the Mayor, and so be it. At the last meeting the suggestion was approved that a lamp be erected at tho fire brigade tower to facilitate strangers to find the pelton wheel. XSght being the most proptious time for fires, wonder how many strangers will be going aljout looking for fires. With the new lamps 011 tho pedbstals the present wliitd board answers the purpose and costs nothing for maintenance. Xow a lamp lias been placed at the corner of the fire brigade station, and a stranger coming from Oxford street south might think it is an hotel or something more useful. Another proposal was approved, that is the cutting down of the pines in the tennis court ground. This will deprive players of n nice rest al fresco during the hot summer days. Pines will not kill macroearpa if the latter are properly trimmed. 1 cannot help remarking how" little it takes to make the councillors laugh. lam alluding to tlie borough ranger incident. Xow. let

us come to suggestions: Summer is approaching, and so far nothing has been done to* have the trees in the streets pruned and the dead ones replaced. Are the members of the streets and reserves committee going to move in the matter or leave the trees to become a nuisance? Another matter, and a most important one, is a recommendation to the water and sanitation committee to <wganise a house-to-house inspection of backyards, especially in the most congested part of the town : an inspector is oif very little use, as past -experience has proved. I also suggest that the doctor and another member of the committee pay a visit to the sale yards and recommend that the concreting of the pens be done at once and proper drainage provided before rttrmmer sets in. The above fiiigestion v/ill give councillors something to think of in tlieir spare time, and afford them to bring at the next meeting something usoful and worth discussing.—l am. etc. 3 M. FOSELiLA 15th July, 1g1j.7.