CORRESPONDENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 731, 22 February 1877, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

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Sib,— ln your issue of Tuesday, I see a letter signed 4 Economy, 1 a jtd headed * Every thing in its Place.'- Knowing hia place, he would never have rushed into

print, and writen on a sul jecfc of which hie knows actually nothing. The man's ignorance of his subject is palpable from beginning to end of hia letter, every Btatemert made by him, with one solitary exception (the cost of a certain bridge), being far inside of the faots of the oas9. He suggest that the Hamilton Station should have been at the junction of the Whatawhata and Ngahinapouri rivers. Might I ask htm on which aide of the Hamilton Gully (north or south) he would put the Station. If he wants to have it on the north side, the only place where it would be of any use to the Waipa settlers, be cuts off the Hamilton people altogether, and if he puts it on the South side, he cuts out the others, at the same time increas ; ng the distance from the township. This happens so, because the bridge over the Hamilton Gully is for .Railway traffic only, and not for horse, or even foot-passengers. As for the present site being in the emit e of Jolly's Swamp, it is certain that • Economy ' can never have seen it, as the ground all round the site, and on the site itself, is as solid as the land in the township of Hamilton, consisting of about 15 inches of good soil, and underlaid by a heavy layer of excellent sandy gravel. As to the cost of the approaches, I see that the formation of the cemetry road waß taken the other day under nine shillings a chain, and I will guarantee tLat the same parties would be glad to get twelve shillings for the station road, which will be 34 chains long, thus costing, say, £20, which said formation will, of course, be done by the Government, through the Public Works Department. The bridge ' Economy ' mentions as having cost £120, is not over one of Mr Jolly's 6 feet drains, but across the main outlet drain from the Lake, which also carries off all the drainage from the lower part of the Swamp, and which may have to be (end probably will be) deepened aud enlarged very soon, consequently a large nent structure is the most economical. As to the piles being?driven 15 fest' below the bottom of the drain, that is all nonsense, and a mere assertion on the part of " Economy." Where the drains are that will require larger bridges, "Economy " only knows. Certain it is that they do not exist anywhere near the Hamilton station ground, or anywhere else except in imagination • and it is, indeed, needleas^ to point out to practical men that drains which can be kept open by means of large pipes, require any bridges at all much less mor eexpensive ones than the 120 pounder above mentioned. • Economy' also says that filling up 20 acres Vor a station, &c, &c, will waste enough money to build a bridge at Hamilton. What , can be mean by twenty acres ? Suiely it is a printer's error.* Why ' Economy,' old man, 20 acres Vould be ground enough for half as many stations on this line, unless, indeed, a recreation groand was attached to each. Finally, I may inform • Economy ' that aU the r. quired filling in has been done, and did not cost as much as would buy a new punt rope, let alone nearly enough (o build a bridge at Hamilton. I would recommend • Economy ' to pay a visit to the station Bite— which he has evidently not yet done— and see for himself how foolish he has been in writing on a subject of which he is lamentably ignorant. — I am, &c, Snap. Hamilton, February 21, 1871.