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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 315, 24 November 1875, Page 4

Anyone would imagine, seeing the important business which has recently and yet has to be dealt with by the Town Council, that members would make it a point to be regular in their attendance, so that their advice and counsel would be heard on the matters brought before the Board. But the fact is quite the reverse. The places of certain Councillors seldom see them. Especially is this the case with Messrs Grant and Taylor. Both those gentlemen are old and valued public servants, and would have been well: qualified to give some practical advice on many weighty matters which have come before the Council ; both were members when the water-works scheme was initiated, and Mr Grant was one of the most warm supporters of the Firewood Creek scheme. It might therefore be reasonably expected those Councillors would make an effort to lend their aid in bringing the work to a satisfactory conclusion, and not leave the burden of so important an undertaking to comparatively new members, the majority of whom have little acquaintance with its practical details. During the past three months the principal