CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 64, 30 May 1877, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our correspondence column Being open no responsibility 'can be accepted m respect to opinions expressed by correspondents.]

Sic,— By an advertisement m your paper I see v that everyone that owns or keeps a dog is requested to send tlie dog tax to Foxton. IS r owj Sir, I don't like the idea of lending money out of the ';place, when we are so much m need of that uisefuk article at "this present time to make ouri-pads with,- and I think there ought to be a public meeting on the subject, as prir township is" about to be formed into a municipal borough. Sir, I should, like to call the conti*actors? attention to the new bridge that is bein^ constructed across ' the Manawatu; river, as it is m a much more dangerous state now than . it was when' m a, less finished condition as regards children; . As' it is now children can get on the narrow planks and walk oVer, and. there might sOpn be an accident of some child being drowned. 3?fevention is better than- cure at any time ; now to prevent a^ny accident from happening, the contradtprs should keep a man tP watch, on i Sundays,' to see that no : c'hildren . got "pn the. bridge. . I don't think the. HCpntractprs would be held blameless if there was to be an ac-cident.-^l.amj &cij - v * : ':,:";■ ; : '-■'•' A Ratepayee.