THE COUNTY ENGINEER.
You may talk about the troubles, and the turmoil and the strife. Attendant in the vagaries and the
trials of business fife. They are many knotty problems to he settled in a year. And there’s no one knows it better than the County Engineer.
He is met by friends and enemies and deluged with demands For crossings, roads and brd'-es. when they know full well his hands Are occupied by many things, but still they think it queer If they’re told to go to Hades by the County Engineer.
He is mercilessly s’andered by the men he must refuse And from those who’ve never seen him he is subject to abuse. All odds and ends still lacking in the districts there and here Are held as evidence against the County Engineer.
If the roads we trend are unbroken, and unouestionably good. He doesn’t even then receive the credit that he should. For it’s “ So the fellow ought to be on six hundred pounds a year." Is the err that g"oet<; the triumphs of the County Engineer.
If the roads we tread are broke-, and the hills we cli—b are s+iff. W’-dln we curse t’w Ce’mty Council, let us efi rememhe- if— We’d settled in the district with the hardv »iorp»r Wo would re-fit-e the value of a County Engineer.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 299, 1 August 1929, Page 1
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222THE COUNTY ENGINEER. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 299, 1 August 1929, Page 1
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