COUNCIL AND PRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 137, 3 November 1914, Page 2

COUNCIL AND PRESS.

A ClUTtGlci.M iU2}EKTKD. 'CHAIRMAN'S STUGXtt PHOT,R,ST. . At the meeting of the Taranaki •C ounty Council yesterday, tli/i chairman, a r Brown,, referred to an article wlueii appeared in the Taranaki 'Herald wiitli reference to the IWaiwaJaiiho bridge, Wherein the Council was accusI ed or not having the engineer's plans and with having interfered with them. He quoted from a report) by the engin- • cer, Mr Skinner, which stated that all tlie piers were in uood order and could be used for a new bridge. ,lle emphatically denied that the Council had ever int'erfored wit'li either tlm plans or specifications for llle bridge, but,., on tlv contrary, had accepted the. n< mnmvmlai'ons of the engineer and carried them out The criticism, he said, was entirely uncalled for a.nd unjustilied, for there had been no interference whatever wit'hi Ulio. plans. ~ '• r - Andrews considered that the edi.oi should dm asked lor an explanation lis to why he had made such a. statement which was quite contrary to fact Or. fctevens asserted that tlie Councii had loyally accepted and carried out the Engineer's plans without any altcfit ion or interference.

Iho chairman, in reply, sa id h 0 folt i.' wan only <lue 'to the ratepayers tliat the newspaper statement should not he allowed ito go uncontradicted, and he had therefore ibroughi, the matter up. the press could report his remarks or C ' T laCOd - T " e «"»