ST. ALBANS COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10129, 31 August 1898, Page 6

ST. ALBANS COUNCIL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —If, as some correspondents have stated, the full details of the work of widening Innes's road were not given in the schedule, and not mentioned at the ratepayers' meeting, it is clear that (hough this was one of the works for which the loan proposal was carried, the ratepayers were misled, even, though unintentionally, and I very much question whether this work would be approved if a separate vote were now taken upon it. The action of the Mayor seems to have been a little hasty and ill advised. As regards the road known as Pack's, extending from the north belt to Edgeware road, I am astonished to hear that the formation was included in the schedule to the first loan proposal, but was omitted from that to the second. If there is one work more than another that has greater claims on the resources of the Council it is this. Here is a Government or public road, laid out at the foundation of the settlement nearly fifty years ago, which the Council and all its predecessors have persistently neglected, and left ab-olutely untouched and in an impassable condition ! and this notwithstanding that it has all alone" left to private individuals almost all the road formation by which the southern part of the borough has been developed, .and the rates increased ! It is difficult to understand how any body of men with a sense of the fitness of things, to say nothing of justice and a sense ef public dnty, can have allowed such a state of things to exist, and this "gorse road " to i.ni.in a standing reproach to the borough and its management.—YOurs, -tc., J-JSTITIA.