PROFESSIONAL RIVALRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 128, 25 June 1901, Page 2

PROFESSIONAL RIVALRY.

Jlu, Leslie Reynolds, (J.E., in a letter to the Olago />ai/t/ Times, indignantly rep idiatee tiha claim made by Mr. Napier Bell to be the author of lie water and drainage f(h"tn<>B now being carried out at Masfceiton, and in supp irt of his t>tal denial thit sujh is the casp, Mr. Reynolds set* out. a te'egram from t'-e Mayor of MasVrlo? s'ating tliat Mr. Bell's schsmo was 10 adopted, uiid that the credit of the sohyuiei now b ing cinied out entirely belonged to Mr. Reynolds. He stites the po i i >ri was thus : - "Iu November, 18G7, I stippl ed rf port and estimitts f r water and sewoiage s'.'hcmo-;, .md, as the matter waa a soirewlat. heavy undertaking, a se tion of ihe Council denned it advisable to obtair an-.th v opinion, and ia May of the foiljwii g )ear Mr. Bel wascaled in to alvise. Wi'li iny report and detail data ■the liter of which 1 furwv.rJed on request) refo.e him, he producedseh< mes on similar lines to my owe, but as I considered some of his methods in the' Siwernge system au'iquated mid out of date, I wio'e a supplemental reporda ed Jun", 1898, and shortly a'forwards the Count il d cided to accept my schemes. Mr, Evil, Ceding liim.-elf beaten, wrote the Council a )e't?r containing a most scutrilous and contemptible a*t j .ck upon mo and my professional ability, which gained the snubbing which his effusion merited,"