CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2308, 31 May 1886, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE PROPOSED LOAN. • (To thb Editor,) Sib,—Kindly allow me,' through the medium of your columns, to give the Masterton Borough Council some idea of the feeling with which a good many the ratepayers living in the outskirtsfttihe Borough regard the proposal to tßtrow. ±IIOOO for fire brigade purposes. In the first place we should-receive .no benefit whatever from a steam fire engine aa our dwellings are tod far away. Even if the engine got to a burning houae before it was totally destroyed, in most cases there would not be sufficient water handy to be of any use. We think that to be just the Council should, at least, borrow, another thousand to be expended in making roads in the AVe are surprised that men like Crs Chamberlain and Hessey should allow so much iponey to be expended ir, plowing up good metal roads on purpose to move thqiii a few feet, while in other parts of the Borough ratepayers have to wade through mud to their knees, and where they have pretended to metal the roads they are allowed to get in a most disgraceful state for want of a little alteration here aridthere. As an instance, one street has deep ruts in its, and, what is worse, the water-tables are filled up, which turns the water out of two springs on to the road, forming a nice littlo rivulet for about a quarter of a mile. It is a wonder some enterprising person does not start a sjrist mill on it, as water-power is much cheaper'than steam. In another place the settlers contributeu half the cost of metalling, besides paying their' rates, and now the Council do not even keep it in proper repair. If our worthy Councillors kept a man or two looking after suburban "roads, filling ruts and holes liere arid-there "where necessary, instead of letting them 3top until thoy cut right through-the metal and become almost impassable, it would be much more economical, and save many a poor horse from having soro shoulders. It is certain if they go 011 as they have lately all proposols for borrowing money to be expended m the neighborhood of QueenStreet, will bo protty determinedly opposed by those living in the suburbs. Ihave,(feo.,

SUBURBAN.