OUR MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12867, 27 July 1907, Page 11

OUR MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

TO Till. Kill run OF "TIIE llltSS.' .Sir,--The revelations mado by your repiuti-r 011 tin- maiiujZ--ment of the municipal abutu;ir.s will horrify .ill -!.>n-nt ci.i/.e.u; just what can be I'-trM-cted of a .Mayor and Council wh'i will bo guilly ol piopcsi.-g *o build lavatories under tho t.ixlhy statue, or who wiil i'lace fcwiriimiiJ-: iutiis next to tin- i'li.il.e morgue, siirrounded as it i.s by the insuinj from the divtni-.:tor, and in a yarl where all tin* tilth and iiUim* ot the city are 'Iruiy .somo jH'ojile arc intiTiy dovoi-1 ol any s.'ii»o ot ddic-aiy nr ot the litnc.--. ot things. When 'Greater Chr si, i.un b wiformed it n.is bojicd that ritizeiu of i-oiiif ami ability Mould I-• induced to piai-j tin ir .-..-rvices ai H.c di-.-il.<x ; iil of tin- ,r;H.'iia\il--. but witli vi-.y ti". l .- i'xcim liuiu tmye hopes havo bei'ii rudely <li-.-pi-!li'd It is a'pni.t pity that tho City C'onnril ever built thi- abattoirs con.■■idcring hon- wt-il tin- publii- v.is al-r.-ady sei-vcd by the t'.uj Kxi.-ui't Mc: Companies who have nil tho niadiinery uiT(.->ary for tarrying cut this highly io. [.-ul taut branch of industry in a:: infinitely better manner than cmil.l be exp.'.-.'teil from any i::uni<ijal body. Ilisload of goini; into t'lin- outsidimatters, why <1". -< m ' tin' Council turn itd attention to its more rnato functions: that of lofikiiiß after the streets properly? I maintain thai tho str> ot.s of ; he City have nover l-eon in a worse condition than thr-y mo to day. Wo have had » remarkably dry winter. Jfad we experienced the usual wet weather at thi* time of the yeat no should have had to wade through .sf>at* of mud. Tho Htreots wore formei.'y brushed and senr'ol regularly, but have been Midly neglected of lato. the c 'iiscquen<*o lieing thai after a short ■ipell of dry weather 11 little wi id cnusoi tho whole place to he inundated with dtiht. I nm .surprised. t=ir, that you have not taken this matter up lx'i'orr now lloteford strev't east is the only street in tho City which is in a go< d cor dition, ami that. I believe, was laid down by tho late City .Surveyor, Mi Archer.—Yours, etc., XICTTKTE 26th July, 1907.