REQUEST REFUSED.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8049, 5 November 1906, Page 2

REQUEST REFUSED.

TO THE EDITOIt. Sir,—The conduct of the Council in re fusiug me the privilege of driving it few j*gß in a portion of ths footpath of Knoxstreet is so na*row and consequently so contemptible that it 13 best desoribad in the little song entitled "1 don't want to play in your yard." The "peg trick" of the Council is what I may describe as the acme of the series of shabby tricks the Council has tried to play on me. What a spectacle to behold, the a 3 sembled wisdom 1 f the Hamilton Borough Council, after mature deliberation solemnly declare it will no! all.iw a few pegs to be driven in a footpath of a by--treet, became of the danger to p.'.ssers-by. A suggestion has made that the Council fence off the portion of the street in question and let it for grazing to keep tud grass down. When one considers that at night tha marquee wi l be brilliantly lighted inside and ou*", and the pegs protic'ed, it is hard to see how any but a drunken man cjuld be entrapped. But why should the Hamilton Borough Council only think of the public safety when Father Darby makes a modest request of it? What regard has it had for the public safety for the past twelve months by allowing claches to remain at night unlighted on the road that leads to my house. It would seem that the Hamilton Borough Council is anxious tor the safety 1 f others but it matters not if I am killed provided my fancy fair dies with me. For the past three years the Hamilton Borough Council has dono its bast to kill my fancy fair and every year the Council has had to adroit that it has received a sound hrashing. I hope I shall be able to tell the same tale this year. The heterogeneous ma-s of which the Hamilton Borough Council is composed may live to learn that it is a wiser policy not to go out of your way to give needles trouble and offence to your inoffensive neighbour.-I am etc,

JOSEPH CROKE DARBY. The Preabytoi-y, H-iinilton, Nov. 5, 1906.