TARIKI TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81883, 7 November 1906, Page 4

TARIKI TROUBLES.

Mr Cha'Us Summons, Tariki road. »[i<c io tut Tarauaki County Council ■ ean'ly: "I not ce In the repuil ol :'>ui 0( ob'r meeting tiiut th..' foreman.- Mr Jon'.'s, npuiu-d 1 liad rc-.iiLvi-d >om'- 3cyds 't cattli from a pjit of the road whcie it was most urgently requ'red. 1 =h'uld Ike '0 my version of the matter. 1 have bui t a new house, and opposite .he only convenient place for an ou<ic: f. r a cart track was a bank of aith. wh en formed the low aide of 1 cutting. Now I con- der Uiat 1 tad the right to expect the Council 0 lemove tlii-, so as to give a>ce?s to iiy ptcpeny, 'bur 1 decided not to hother you w th tlie matter- but to do the work myself. I estimate the mount of earn removed at abut one h rd of what J'>ne- reckons t. Should c-u run short of blinding mater al, i shall be happy to let y. u have as inuch as you want from the hi 1 inside ■ny gate. :n fact, the more the better. 1 hear on all sides of your foreman j aik ng about h s p.edcccssor and -ay-1 ng that he did no: know what he did with his time. Well, I f»r one can *aj that I veiy often saw h m at woik.•nd I think that most folk w 1! agree with me, and I also think they will agree with me when I say that you -,i'i very seldom catch Jones working. He seems to spend most of h s t me e thf-r r ding about with his shove' on h s shoulder or else propping him--elf upon it while he has a yam with a paser-by.''