LAKE-STREET CAMBRIDGE AND THE TOWN BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2045, 15 August 1885, Page 3

LAKE-STREET CAMBRIDGE AND THE TOWN BOARD.

ro the kdhoh. Sin,— l see by your sub loader of August I,3th, that you aie slightly wrong in your romaiks with repaid to Lake street, although no doubt, you lecemd jour mfoiniation fiom the boaid ofhec. [ can only conclude you has c been mislead with th o object of deeming the latepayers tnei these accounts. You hay the matter has been disposed ot, .md the whole affair has been gone into, &c. 'Ji anted, as f.ir as suitable foi one side of the question, but Mr Editor, I must lot you peep behind the scenes foi a while. On the morning of Tuesday last, the forenoon of oui monthly meeting, tliieo menibeis of the ho.ud in teiested in the L<\ke-sticet woik, weie in the town board olfice putting these accounts into good shape to suit their own piupose at our meeting in the afternoon. To use a vulgaiism, they were cooking these accounts. Take one account as an example, Ryan's. Lake-street is charged 31-days on his behalf, (£2 12-.) Now the the facts aie these . — Kv.m worked 3| days at so much per day, and then came to some ariangement to continue at ho much per yaid, until the job was finished, thus bringing his account up to £7 17s. Again take Mann's account, which is given a% 1\ days at 7s, (£2 12s (id). This amount is quite absurd when he claims £(> \U (id m full for this work, and so on th tough the whole list of accounts foi L ike-stieet. The only conclusion one can come too\ei tins business is that the menibeis who undeitook the woik find out that they have made a, great nnitake and wish to get out of it in any way whate\er, and some clever fin muei has put them up to the ino\e of chaiging one half to Queen-stieot. This s,ud (fuoenstieet has cost the iatepa\eisof CamUidge inoie than any othei of our stieets, being one of the best m oui to\\nshi|>. T onlj mention tliis to -how how absnid it i- to chaige half the cost of this little job (I can c\ll it by no othei name) to this street. When men, who blush.it the mere allusion to a certain wind that has been us"d too fieely among the-o gentlemen of late plot j and try to mislead people in this undeili mded way what nic they doing' Are they acting as tine, himomabl 0 men, who ha\e nothing to Jc.u fio/n the public ? oi arc they acting a lie in innate, which they aie ash.imcd of and d.iro not faco m public. In conclusion, joiis.iy the work done in Qneeu-stioot was .nitl oiised at a pie\ioiw meeting. The only woik in Queen-street entrusted to the .stieets committee was puttingdown'a enlvetatCarnachan'scoinei. The board (having rccehed a lawyer's lettiu from Mr Hay on the matter), leforred it to the sheets committee with power to act; and a nice trap thvy made of it. The other work done in Queeen-stroot was never authorised by the boaid. Apologizing for taking up so much of your valuable Kpacc, I am, ..sir, yours obediently, Ai.nihi) d. HuCiHKh. Cambridge, August 14th, I.SK~>

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