The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY. JULY 21, 1882.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1131, 21 July 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY. JULY 21, 1882.

j Wb linil hoped that with the new blood infused a short time since into the Mas--1 Sertoli Borough Council it would by tliis time have renewed its youth and have manifested a little of that vigor' for which it obtained so much credit four years ago. The new blood, excellent (hough it may be, seems howI ever to run very sluggishly. Proliably j the representatives of it 'are.too much _ occupied villi then more private con- . cerns to give that consideration to the alliiirs of the town which they demand. . One thing is tolerably plain viz: That . there is.not a single road in the Bor--3 ough.wliich is really well metalled and in good order, and there are a gioit • niany which are mere' swamps. .The Engineer and Works Committee have . been at loggerheads and it is quite. '• understood outside the Council Chamber that what'work is'undertaken is more or l(;ss "aunhllotl. No one per- . liaps is more ready to admit that ! things generally are crooked than the member of the Borough Council themselves, at the. same time they : 'appear to consider the effort necessary to put things Straight as something beyond their strength. We hope yet to see some movement to put the affairs of the borough on a bete footing - and we'feel sine that, the Mayor himself would willingly take the lead iu. this • .-direction.-• If the Public Works Committee would make a tour of tlie 1 Borough and estimate what works in the shape of constructing new roads and making old ones passable, also what streets require widening, they would be in a posiion to advise the Council whether there vas any reasonable prospect, of putting the town on its.legs without the aid of a loan, For some time past we have been of the opinion that a loan js indispensable. A calculation of what is required to be done,' and. the slender ways'and "means now available for doing it would decide authoritatively whether we are right in ouivsurmise. Such a 1 calculation in justice to the ratepayers ought to be made. Many wen have been kept year after year oxpecting to have a road to their premises, and are just as far off obtain- i iiig.'tlieir requirements now as they were in the first instance. The Public Works Committee may know all that. ! requires to be done, and may be. able ( to state what prospect there is of doing t it out of ordinary revenue during the i next three or four years, but if so they i fail to take the council and the public ' into their confidence. As for. the c engineer'the committee openly laugh at him as incompetent, and. possibly 1 relieve their coriscienejs as far as the 1 unfortunate ratepayers are concerned ® by ridiculing mismanagement for which ; they are themselves responsible. 1;