Cox's Creek bridge.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1886, Page 4

Cox's Creek bridge.

(To the Editor.) «" Sib, — Can you tell me «_____ Council got their authority hl\K with Cox's Creek Bridge P_M spend any more ratepayers' ____ have thorn consider, lest thw__-l it in the wrong shop £&■ ago an order came from W_li_J*_ City Council and Newton H "fS to lay off a no w line of road ac__f 1 as tho existing, bridge was •__M being in the wrong pl aco) thoroughfare. They m ß t.o__SH according to appointmont, .____ new hue across the creek, hi_3i sir, how is it the new lino i ß «._-_* and gone back to the old line __$*! demned by everyone, e_ceb_fS__| interested parties, as buing and useless? It reminds li*k man's horse which wa» h„_V and when caught, not worth' ' Now, if this old bridge was __9H to-morrow, it would be ueffl? thoroughfare, as it is too near ___ ono side and altogether awavT* mond Settlement, and no us/fl Northern traffic. And again Wm gable creek, and I would auk SI and Newton ratepayers if they Hi and be robbed of their jS| lifting their voice against Pffij the creek is the boundarli Ponsonby and Newton, and_H tion the City Council if: |*l the power of blocking up the HI that creek, which was given S highway when they first pnrcffiSJ property. Again, this old roadlul Council is going to patch up,-_l__ £2,000, and I hope the ra4yS sonby will proclaim, to a man ___3 a uscloss waste of their rate»___H earned money—when they^wf a bettor road for one?if|l the cosf-, and the one origina_ly to connect Ponsonby and NcntafJ the continuation of Wharf RoSS across tho creek into Princees.ffiS! mond, both thickly populated «U Now, sir, if the Council hasoy«_M spare on a useless road, they ; _ffl| the footpaths to some of thelfil houses where they can't got tot___| winter for mud.—l remain,'-MM yours, &c, ; ,£H