ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1760, 22 June 1886, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. WIDTH OP TIRES. To the Editor. Sib, — I notice that one of the members of the Bruce County Council has given notice to move at next meeting that the width of tires on waggons and drays travelling over the roads in the Bruce County be 4 inches respectively, and that the penalty for breach of this bye-law is not to exceed £5 for each day. Now, I think you will agree with me when I say that it is the greatest piece of injustice that the public have been asked to tolerate for many years. When we take into consideration the great depression at present ruling everywhere around us, and the great struggle that nearly the whole of us are experiencing in trying to make ends meet, and are still handicapped by new and increased taxes nearly every day, and yet the Council, who are elected by the ratepayers to represent and superintend their interests, propose to put every ratepayer to the immediate outlay of at least £10 for every pair of wheels he possesses before he can take an ordinary two-horse load to market is something ridiculous, aud it is in my opinion quite uncalled for. I believe I am quite correct when I say there are not threa drays or waggons in the Bruce County with three-inch tires, to say nothing of the four-inch tires as proposed by the new bye-law. It is very strange that in these days of railway when we have stations and sidings ao convenient to most of onr farming districts, and consequently not more than half of the heavy traffic on the roads there was ten years ago, that it should all at once strike some important member to make himself ridiculous by trying to bring in such a bye-law as to dictate to a poor farmer or carter the exact amount he is allowed to put on his dray. Whether he haa four horses or two ho is only to carry thirty cwt. on two wheels, even allowing that he has spent £10 and got new wheels with four-inch tires. Hoping I have not encroached too much on your valuable space, and also hoping that some more able pen than mine will take the matter up before it is too late to prevent such a ridiculous proposition becoming law. —I remain, One who will Suffer. Hillend, June 16.