SHORT-STREET CONTRACT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 826, 22 July 1881, Page 2

SHORT-STREET CONTRACT.

! ■ —. .„♦.,.. : #[■■ To the Editor of the Waibabapa Dai/ j Sir,—! believe you will'find 'wh'atV h ; to be correct if you refer to the report that appeared in' your paper of wbat transpiredatJhe.. previous-ordinary- ; meeting of the Borough Council. In that 'rjeport given by you .the public were in< fbrinqd, with roference to the Kurupuni Ration R9ad;(Short;Street) contract, the Council was informed by the road, over- ... peer that it was progressing'.favorably, and would.'be'finished.in.; aiifortriight. Now; Bir, yhy is it that the';Gourioil are in the habit of .accepting Buch'. reports, V '.which, I^'iinhesitatingly. atate,\!;often appear based- upon. 1 neither truth nor reason. I believe it will be pretty plain ( that'there are some'parties ihteroatedln '|> ; the delay of the perhaps, 'by my effort, cannot lie brought to light. I think lam correct when I state that the contract work has been in a manner bus- • peudedj 'wliile'York, the'bbiitrabtorof'the road, has entered on another .contract tosupply the piles' for 'the newschool. These arei beingtaken off the road, and , ;Ihave boen.informed;thatMr,Yile'Bcart -, has'been employed drawing them, Perhaps these/things.are all '.working together for good to certain parties, but is it so for the ratepayers, who have to pay'the separate rate 1 I think not, I said, sir, a month since that it would'take any two men two months from that time to complete the work, and J challenge contradiction. .Ifis a : fact; and so'the road overseer seems nw to think. I saw Mr Councillor Gray this evening. He; had been to see it: ask him' his opinion of ■it.'; I think, too, that it is unjust in..the highest degree that the Council should'; accept these reports from the road overseer. He; is drawing', good wages from the ratepayers, and it Vhis duty to con-, suit,'their interests generally; but he can, if he chooses, at' any time set part of the ratepayers at' defiance to suit party purposes. It would te 'well.if the person's wh/have'consented to the separate rate would,meet and inspect the work. My object in vvrjtingthis is' to,'show the ■', absurdity of these reports of the borough road' overseer, and I will also state that I have been in communication'with the General Post-office Department to get the Kurupuni mail, brought down frpm the • , platform station; consequently the road/"'') is required, and, without any compliments whatever I say let it be done.' lam of opinion that;;.the public works v 6f:the borough shouldjbe carried out under & difr ferent system. Thedounoil 7 as.awhole 'should make themsWes acquainted as to. 'how the eontracts_.;. ( and are performed—whether satisfactory or'ojher wise (as it fa;; atl,preseht)\,:.3 lLis r and;unjustto;Jthe 7 good and sufficient ground?:"tV ifr;Wbodroofe and othersj'to for a change in an existing municipal -p'otyersjas' now ;exereised in Masterton, 'i-\\ wi--■■'.' {"--'!. Ps ! Hl'^'.v'-'.a:'^;^ i :■;•; .-lani, &c..,,/. I - 1 P. S,-Mr Gray told the that, any; rate he djd not believe it jwould..be ;dorie in less than a month hence,"So,.'Bir^how will it be in six: weeks -without ';*} much larger staff? Mi Gray expressed,' His surprise to find the Wprkj bo .backward,-—.