SPLENDID ACCOMMODATION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 2

SPLENDID ACCOMMODATION.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chbohiclb.) Sib, —The accommodation provided for the public at the St. Bathans post and telegraph office is such that if two persons meet there on business, one of them must stand outside while the other is ' ' being served. Will the proposed new building ever be erected H—l am. <fec„ Obskkvkb. St. Bathans, Feb. 8. ' ' ♦ ■ r: (To tin Editor of the Muentlda ChHoniolh.) Sib',—lt seems tliat t-be" Town Council are determined that the ratepayers of South Ward shall not have the necessarv repairs done, to the south main road, parts of which are in an absolutely dangerous condition. Beyond a small amount of prison labor, very little Corporation work has been: done to this road since the establishment of the Municipality. What has become of-the. notice of motion tabled some monthssiure concerning the matter by one of the South Ward Councillors ? Has-the said Councillor let it drop? or does he think' that,- because the Toad is dry now, there will never be any more rain? Now is the time to have the work done, tf left till the wet weather the road will; be impassable. When our wotthv Mayor was seeking the suffrages of the electors he said that there would be no need for a tax at all .- that the money coming l into the-Corporation from other sources would be ample to keep the Municipality in'repair, We got our Mayor, and-we got ouf taxs?s, - too; and, with the; : tax,- the income has not been sufficient'to icov-er the : lavish expenditure,; ' The wise men' of the East have, in- their wisdom, thougnt fife to borrow to the tune of £I6OO, and there'is nothing to spare. Batj if the South Ward is to be deprived iof its share of the Corporation revenue, how is it that the £3OO Government -money—which was .granted for the purpose of putting; the: main road in repair, and for, that purpose alone—i» also absorbed in' that monument of fully, the Tovi n. Hall ?.\ Hav r e, tlie ruen'of the Eastmisappropriated thin too ? If so, i t is" time that the ratepayers should besfir themselves—for who can tell when such blundering as characterises the: action of the Council is to!stop;-vi ani, &c., -: i • A South Warp Ratkpaybb.