THE PROPOSED BRIDGE AT HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 666, 26 August 1876, Page 3

THE PROPOSED BRIDGE AT HAMILTON.

Thi following it » copy of the* petition ! now being circulated for tigaatar* ia the ■•veral part of the Waikato diitrict t— To the Honorable the Honie of R«pr«> •ent»tiTM, in leitiou aurmbUd : The petition of'the aad«r«ig'a«d hihkhitauta of the Dutriotqof WaikaU and Piako Humbly Smewetw — Tb*l tb,e ntayi puklio highway fromtfat fjrty of Aoakumd >to lh« tionthtza jparti

waj simply tbis : That, taking adTantege o tlit 1 nboence of the cliairtr an t) c trustees held an i! egal iii«et'ng, nt which th-3 two gentlemen before mtnt-oned cirri«»d » r.> olntion tl>nt 1.200 should be spent i» making a bridle tmck somewhere obont Ngahinjtpouri. Nntumlly enough the r>itr parrrs lost nil confidence in thrm * Wli« her there was any advintnge taken of tie Absent chairman os regards the I 200 I leave the public to judgp, but th ■ I kiow for » fact, \bnt the line chanman informed me himself, on his word of honour, that there thould be e.ther the L2OO spent or tin wb >Ie of the Got rnunent grant, but I am sorry to say neither • ere expended, Mid I believe were never meant to be spent. It was limply a phim to shut our mouths, and then ttt the following meeting why did the chairman not act up to his w >rd and rote for the money to be (pent, then we should perhu p§ have seen something for our rates, but now we ace nothing. A man's word •hould be hii bond. And as for the ratspayers lo ing all c<>nfidenc' in them, that is altogether untrue. I- or the past few years lorty-five votes would have elected any penon as trustee, and allowing for it« be ng perhaps a hltlo higher this year, both thff above gentlemen referred to reached about }ix y TOie*. . Wh n, however, Puteran i and Mn'ng!iplko> cam* in strong, 'm mail atfire, in -the jih ape -0? -proxies, q( cours*. they, e'ectfd,. wht»th4y- j^e^—ajid. Id is 'they 'dfd, for* all in laieap ut^ Pa'te/angi. are 'three 'trus'te'est jy|uf*t!we. JvpresetjtirjY. half l.he" avei offtUa'^hale' of t\» .district, hhre bnt da* ".^h'wi agijn C«rr6s stAtei f *lL-\t the largest item of expenditure for the last year was lAbi) for a bridge, so near to the residence of one of those gentlemen thai it is ctlled *fter him.' I have been living in the district Tor years, and am •'.ill living there, but I h»v« nerer hea<*d < f a bridge being called after any person nnve one, and that mas erected same year* ago. There was a bridge completed last yenr, in fact, only a month or two ago, but that was U derlnken by the Board pom> two rears ago, and handed over to the late Board to carry through, funds bein^ at thrir credit in ih» bank for the puipo«e. Surely Carles does not consider tiint a work of 1 i*t year. I may nl«o ft» c th>-t ch^ passing of the s»id bridge refletsl cts no credit on ft lie }*t-> Board, for it wa* neither finUlied ac ording to plun or «ppcfii-ations. I am glad to see Car'o>-nt/tte-iblo for a revision of the highway houndarr, and tbat he may in lueuc. others.— From a Corkisfondknt.