THE GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1136, 18 August 1883, Page 2

THE GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Mb Headit"R, —[ am glad that ph'g don*; as I luti to do t'othT morning on! 'uive gotten wlmam again, »-o have j<i«t '«>» down and took pen in tny hands to my letter üboir Oara'dme Uown y OownriL If yon mind I left of in saying now Cownty and Hoad Board shud 'vork together in reparing and raantaning big bridges and mane roads, and when any new bridges are requited for Cowncil to *et u Hinginetr, pay him to tarry out >vorks to conipVeslion, then sack him, ! t;ayin2 ftitn r o r<*pares to be done by .<t<>:id B'tirds, Cnwncil paying the piper. If mj advw-e Bhould he jigreabel to Oowncil and hacted upon. I can tay them•>n to a job for a rwpcctabel Hingineer, illicit, if it proved, a snekcess, would -n'emorializ.* ther* n-iraes foi 20 miles all >• »md ; and the job I mean is the Orari fr.iffik Bridge, for the Koad Board seen? to have come to a full stop about dealing further with this bridge, for if newspapers reports true (which 1 am soiry to say there is a itt'e va ihation at t'lm-s) this work was to be left for the new B »ard to leal with ; new B>ard, as they call them, has been hekcred urn) conm'sts al' of old Material, yet nothing lias been done, and foikssay there's a fresh in river today coming f>ver approach. It is to he hoped no damage is don*, for I am to d that nearly £2OOO Im beeu spent in repair* of this bridge already. The B >ard app ar not to. know what to do in the matter, that's why [ siiv there's a job sticking out for Cowricl to begin on, which will be the cheapest in the end for a good bridge hitigineer to take the matter in hmd. I'm one of those chips ihat believe in IJeconomy when consistent with stability—lam. et<", Clodhopper. Angus' 17.