THE NEW CHANNELING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1915, Page 8

THE NEW CHANNELING.

[To The Editor Stratford Post.] Sir, —1 have read attentively His Worship’s apology for the scandalous waste of money in the destruction ol the old channelling and the laying Idown of the new, and can find only I two reasons given, viz. (Ist) a cer--1 tain untidiness in Broadway attributed to the old which the new is ex'ppcted to remedy, and (2nd) the old channelling was laid down so solidly that it was necessary to pull it up to make a floor for- the new pound, and so save money for the ratepayers! Could any two reasons of a feebler type possibly he advanced? Whether they will be acceptable to those ratepayers that are unable to get to their homes in winter except through a sea of mud remains to be seen. Will His Worship tell the ratepayers how much this work has cost, and how much of the money available out of the rates for street*improvements this year will be left and spent upon the rest of the Borough? Will ho tell us. if he can. how much is annually spent upon Broadway—sweeping, water carts, footpaths? -Possibly this last will admit a very easy answer. If His Worship will give the ratepayers this information and it is satisfactory to those living outside his beloved Broadway, I, too, will try to smother the indignation I feel and try to cool the heat that rises whenever the matter is adverted to, I am. etc. HENRY WILSON.