EGMONT COUNTY CRUSHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 7

EGMONT COUNTY CRUSHER.

(To the Editor). Sir,—Your Warea correspondent appears very much concerned about the crusher not coming to the northern end of the Kgtnoiit County to finish contracts there before starting anywhere else. He states, and rightly so, that the work at that end Ims generally been done when the weather was bad. It was to avoid a repetition of this that I agreed t« the proposal tlv.it all unfinished contracts should be finished before fresh tenders were let, and that the work should be begun in the Oeo Riding. The unfinished contracts are not likely to take more than two or three weeks to complete, and the crusher will be here quite as soon as the roads are likely to be dry. Being here when fresh tenders are let certainly increases the chances of geting mir work done early, as the cost of getting the crusher to the other end of the County and then bringing it back would have to be considered. Whatever your correspondent may think, the Councillors representing the other end of the County thought we had scored a point. With respect to putting on a tollgate to catch the traction engine, which it ie reported is to travel this district, I voted alone against the proposal, but do not think there ,is any chance of its eventuating, as I believe the owners of the. engine 'have no intention of running it further down than Okato.—l am, etc., JAMES BURGESS. C.E.