Mr Renall's Water Race.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2957, 23 July 1888, Page 2

Mr Renall's Water Race.

[To the Editor,] Snt, —Your coiTGspondout » Katepayer," who wroto under tbo above • beading in Saturdry's issue is evidently like myself, not a very great admirer ' of our present Mayor and would doubt- • less like myself sign a petition straight away asking tbo grand old man "to resign bis morocco," but I would like to point out to my imaginative friend tbat some of" the facts relating to Mr Email's water scheme," which lwwishes to " placo before the ratepayers ' are as far from the truth as His IVorship is from paradise. I cannot but belp thinking that "ratepayer" has beeu the victim of some of our wellknown practical jokers otherwise he • would not have written about " the rivor has taken such a course as to threaten to sweep away the dam and render necessary a large expenditure to re-erect and maintain it," for it is no such thing, and had "Ratepayer" been at tbe ontrance of the water raco ' to-day lie would liavo found tbat tbo - luer was livthc same old place hugging the bank as close as though it was in lovo with Benall's race and sending the water down at the rate of knots. J' Batepayor," your talents are wasted in tins country, you would be well paid in England or America as a publie agitator as the following' piece of bunlmm stamps you as one of tbo first water:-"Let every ratepayer ask himself how lie would like to see £4OO ■ or £SOO of the rates spent- in tbo ' bed of the Wuipoua to build up a dat^

'■ lo fuvniah ivater to Mr Renall's mill. Four or fivfi hundred pounds forsooth; ,-why, lha present structure which an ordinary workman would build for £2 10s and find material, has stood for seceral yeara, and no matter how the liver changes its course, it is almost a. impossible to affect it, seeing that it doos not stand moro lhan six inches qbovo the shingles, If any ratepayer , wotil'l like lo spc the ivituro of Mr Kuimll's oxtensivu dmn, lot liiui go to the first Waipoua bridgo, in Queen-st, and see 51r ifefjjer's wool-washing dam, they are both on the same principle, and built of tbo same class of material. It is quito ovident to mo that 11 lintepnyor" ig not a Queen-st. resident or else ho would greatly favor , " infamous scheme," and if our * Cowjcillors were " striving Imrd to protColTOs," why in the namo of fortune , ■ doii t tlioy compel property ownors lo provide a means of procuring water for their tenafc-espccially in Queen-st., for at the present time the fare livo business places in the most important block in tbo town without a pump, or any means to quench tbo most incipient . . of fires, and yet wo grumble at the inmeaso of firo insurance rates. Give us a water supply is my cry, as I consider it would he more advantageous ! • to the town for us to pay extra borough lates for improvements of that kind - ■ than to semi our money away for excesaivo insumnco rates. \ y I am ic., :• Queen-street.