FIELD WARDEN.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 963, 19 April 1872, Page 3

FIELD WARDEN.

(To the Editor of the West-part Times.) Sir, —I trust you will find space in your valuable columns for the following remarks. A Field Warden is required, as we (miners) suffer wrongs, and are deprived of privileges we should enjoy if we had a Warden who would come and decide eases upon the ground ; the Warden nearly in all cases might gain as much information concerning any case as those interested in it; then would this district again enjoy the same boon it did in the days of Kynnersley, and then would every company of miners have more encouragement and feel more confidence in undertaking their usual mining ventures, knowing that no plausible story or misstatement of facts dovetailed together by any learned counsel could deprive them of their rights or put them to an expense they have no right to bear; neither should we upon this terrace be placed in the lamentable and neglected condition we are.* I think, if our Warden would pay a visit to this terrace during any wet weather, and wished to reach the south side of + t-.~ „UV V.UMU,,.. .„«V, U J,W U „mm. „.„ the huts and stores are, the north being the side upon which all the claims, except one, are), aud was told, supposing he was on foot, that there were two ways of getting across—one to wade knee-deep some distance up the eame side of the river and cross upon a tree* which is showing unmistakable signs of refusing to perform the same duty any longer, or subject io the permission of Messrs Harold and party to ascend a scaffold, upon which a flume Is supported, and come to the river some twenty feet above the water, during which piece of performance one has to exercise all one's acrobatic skill—if tee Warden would do this, we should pethaps get what we want. I think if the Government surveyor was instructed to make an official report of the urgent necessity for a bridge to connect the township and huts with the workings aud the Government track (although we seem to be eclipsed by the reefing districts) it would be seen that Giles Terrace would be eutitled to the outlay of £3O, for which sum a suitable bridge, calculated to withstand any flood which has taken place for the past four years, could be constructed. These terraces have

opened up the inland diggings, and may still indirectly assist those large and speculative undertakings if given fair play.—l am, &c, One "Who's C booked. Giles Terrace, April 14.