SHERIDAN-STREET.

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2376, 31 October 1877, Page 2

SHERIDAN-STREET.

(To the Editor).

SIR, —I hope some members of the City Council will go and survey their handiwork in Sheridan-street. A more outrageous disregard of the wishes of the ratepayers, aud a more needless waste of public money, was never perpetrated. The street being a quiet side thoroughfare, with no pretensions to anything beyond an elegible site for private dwellings, the ratepayers signed a unanimous petition, asking the City Council not to make the street on the permanent level, but merely to give an access, and make the comparatively level roadway passable for cart traffic. It was understood that this would be done. Instead, the Council have deliberately let a contract for cutting and filling in, iv such a way that every house in the street is seriously damaged, and some utterly ruined. An utter contempt has been shewn for the interests of property - holders, public money needlessly wasted where it was not wanted, and a pleasant little semi-rural street turned into unsightly cuttings and embankments, for what reason on earth t]ie Council only knows. Is there no remedy for this infamous maladministration ?—Yours &c, A Resident.