NOT FAIR.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 447, 26 July 1879, Page 3

NOT FAIR.

(To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sir, —I. beg to call the attention of .of. the Town Board to the partiality shown in the way repairs and improvements are being made in Carlyle. There is a short street known a Oxford-street, which bad (till lately) one building in it, and for this the street was made and the footpath. gravelled. Now, because a church or meeting house of some sort is being erected in this street, the other pathway also is being.made. In a street ■of more importance and nearer the center ■of . the town, even two chains of pathway was denied on the ground of the Town Board, having no funds. Yet they find funds to make, a pathway to a place to he used by a very small portion of the community once in a month perhaps, while a street like Lincbln-street, with , offices, private houses, and a school in it, is permitted to be a quagmire. It is pitiable to see the children wading through the mud, and having to sit for hours in wet boots and stockings, whilst the day labour of the “poor” Town Board is being spent in improving a useless path in a street uninhabited, one on which much money Las been spent already.—Yours, &c. BOG.TROTTEK. Carlyle, 25th July, 1879.