Municipal Muddlement.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 56, 14 July 1915, Page 4

Municipal Muddlement.

ITO THE EDITOR.] Sir—The new Mayor and Councillors are daily displaying their up-to-date knowledge and smart business methods in running the municipal show. Take their latest exploit, viz., an excavation, about one foot deep aid two feet wide was last week made at the bwer end of King street to allow concrete channelling and kerbing to be constructed. This death trap was left unprotected and without lights for two nights, with the result that at least one individual had a severe fall and clothes damaged when tiying to cro:s the road at this spot. But now comes the funny part of tt.is up-to-date business: Later a portion of the cement kerbing and channelling was laid down. Ths method of doing thia work is quite obsolete and discarded by the larger municipalities for over 20 years as being wasteful of material a.id labour but evidently, even now, it is so cherished and dear to the Pukekohe municipal hea;t that a special fence and lights were then erected to protect this swaddling babe from the feet uf the community. But can 1 make you believe it. Sir, the balance of the excavated trench was still left open and unprotected. Poor rat'psyers; we had to purchase a nsw suit of clothes on account of similar tilly busi ess last year.—l am, etc., CUCIL ROADLEY.