THE TRADE ASSOCIATION AND THE SLUDGE CHANNEL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 216, 18 April 1873, Page 5

THE TRADE ASSOCIATION AND THE SLUDGE CHANNEL.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida. Ciiroxicm:.) Sir,—That progressive body, the Mount Ida Trade Association, lias, since the late visit of the Goldfields Secretary and the Provincial Engineer, been much abused for suggestions or advice alleged to have-been . ; given to Mr. Simpson, the then engineer onv the works of the Mount Ida Water Supply Scheme, conc&rhing:4he aaipunt of fall lieces-*--' sary in bringing- up the Slut§e'-Chan]iei;?bo " effieiently work the aurifgrous jtf%by I?lat. Having been a meinßlr^f thaf. Association for some considerably:-% audialso intimately acquainted - with the activity displayed by th|..miei£T bers i&procuring these great and-magnificient -"" works -at present being' :: conVt™ willxmiiuestionably, eomplete'd, place Mount, as ing making \vjikli, JTtrust will-, •; have the ignorant those in alk.coiUGyi-, Sair&y apron strings, feyls-are shut to^faatlv : H and whose ears l^^^fea^to^ea:^?i J -k,n,iiri delight in dissen^^^^^disTiiii?^ 1 ' brought in whose* ravings who bitterly oppose* thiVjmSroh of progress and improvement— inclined v .sometimes to commit" 'by administering a their opinions have . a but the great respect I Sold for tie >f a certain old geritlema®n me from forgetting Do not jf the fact, Mr. Editor, tl^b fe those growlers—those obstructors^progress—jaofc contributed a single sixpence towards till _ expenses incurred by the lV|de Association in its laudable efforts to' promote. the welfare 3 of the district; nevertheless, often mouthed, they will rush with eagerness "^gloat over, the carrion furnished them at thelfosQf-that' body, and, vanquish-like, suck it'"clry. \ >v With reference to the allegations made 'by - Mi-.' Simpson, which evidently had the reno- v -£;/ vatiug. effdcts- of a box of Holloway on the ante-Association" party, 1 will endeavor to di "tiieih briefly^as follows:—(].) The Mount -Ida Trade Association was not once communicated with by 'Mr. Simpson on any- , matter affecting the . proposed works.—(2. )y jSTo individual member was empowered to ad-\ j vance any regarding the requisite 'l- - consulted there- \ 3.J - Channel specifications district about four weeks before Avas made that ,tbe fall was in--the they woiildliave, informed for art ) Had "the Association been a« are icfc of sur- - #feps tftkeii to ha>e kadthe en Wo aTdeptlk c r *4£» ~->v„ iy -Ai.' 1 " „,.