THE BOROUGH EXPENDITURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1754, 2 October 1883, Page 2

THE BOROUGH EXPENDITURE.

to the uniroK. Silt, — Am I niibinfoimed, or have I dreamt that the Borough Council is heavily bmdoned with an oveidiaft? I think tho latter, or hiirely tho work's committee would nou be bpoudnig money in icmoving the grass -from Hood-street, while many residents m different parts of the borough can scarcely get dry-foot to their homes. The fact in, I huppo.se, the council lias plenty of money, and all the back t>treets are to be done forthwith, as well a-3 tho footpath pxst the dooi of the chairman of the works committee. If so, all right ; but if we d mt all start fair and have an equal show, then I say the titivating up of the Hoodstreet footpath ia a hcxndalous waste of public money. If the borough workmen are out of a job, put them where something useful can be done ; if there is ho .such work, then dischaige them and stop the leak in the borough le venue, which, in the weekly drain of wages, is the mo^t serious item of expenditure. " Ca->t thy bread upon the waters and it shall return unto thee after many days " is very well in a .scriptural sense, but, as a ratepayer, I object to its being done, with a foithcoming mayoial election ahead, by any chairman of a works committee, and a qo r >d deal of bread has been cast upon the waters lately. — I am, etc., Eatepateh. Hamilton, October 1.