CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 10 June 1902, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by our correspondents.]

TE HENUI BRIDGE.

TO THE HDITOB,

Sib, —Possibly 1 may be afflicted with an unde-irable obliquity t-f mental vision, inasmuch as, endeavour as I may, I cannot ate any logical reason why the County Council chould b. called on to contribute a single sti.-ar towards the rebuilding of the Henui bridge. In analysing the position, the question may bo put, has the municipality ever been approached ti subscribe anything to the Coulw! for the heivy expense that that body has had recently to disburse far the widening of the road to Fitzroy ? Or has it on any former occas : on ev r asked to fork out a ceutimo for the outlay from time to I me the Couaty has had to sustain in keeping the Waiwakaibo bridge in repair ? These problems, if negatively leplied to, evince, I trow, an kn ration on the part of the borough which equity cannot very well endorse as being in any sense justifiable. Tho butcher, bak r, grocer, .or candlestick-Mi?ker is not asked to give a mite towards the expense of erecting accommodating coucrete Riep3 leading up to anyone's threshold. Curiously enough, a ploa is strongly put forth, but evidantly weakly considered, which is, that the County will reap a sub stsntial benefit by an increment of rates by the proposed new bridge; si |it will. But such is a felicitous contingency of universal occurrence, as no improvement whatever can be done on any plot of land without it in some way materially benefits the holders of adjicent property. I don't think, that any pecuniary aid can be expected or enforced from the County. And taking into contemplation the respective physiognomits of the members of the County Council, it may be inferred that there is but smell chance of their ever displaying any very startling trait of bonhomie in the absence of some tort of s;rew being put on th»m. There is nev»r a great d«al got by kicking at the wind. Therefore, in weighing these matters judiciously, it would ba moro dignified, more graceful, more considerate, on the part of the borough authorities to soberly and silently bow to the inevitab'e.—l am, etc., A. Hood.