Popular prejudice altogether favors Mr Eenall's water supply scheme, but even those who are most" gone " on it must admit that it is, as far as it is carried out, a nasty mess. The Borough Council has delegated its powers to a Committee, and the latter is supposed to have relegated the functions thus acquired to Mr Keaall who is virtually responsible for the mud puddles of Queen-street. What is obviously wanted, if the scheme is to be carried out to a satisfactory issue, is proper grading and adequate framing.' The Borough Council ought not to have allowed the streets to' be broken up except under the •unervision of a competent engineer, and it ia to exonerate this body for %.™y treet of the town to be disfiguiCu. a -- injured, and its footpaths to.be undermined,: The; present position of the gutter 'project is simply ridiculous* Mr Eenall should go on with the delegation..business by handing over the ,work to soma one competent to cawy jt out ;' ;:•' : .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3117, 31 January 1889, Page 2
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