THE COUNTY ENGINEER

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3251, 12 April 1943, Page 8

THE COUNTY ENGINEER

You may talk about the troubles and the turmoil and the strife Attendant on the vagaries and trial of business life, There are many knotty problems to be solved within a year, And there’s no one knows that better than the County Engineer.

He is met by friends and enemies ,and deluged with demands

For crossings, roads and bridges when they know full well his hands Are occupied by many things but still they think it queer If they’re told to go to hades by the County Engineer.

He is mercilessly slandered by the men he must refuse, And from those who’ve never seen him he is subject to abuse, All odds and ends still lacking in the ridings here and there Are held as evidence against the County Engineer.

If by chance a thing accomplished is unquestionably good, He doesn’t even then receive the credit that he should. For, it’s so the beggar ought to on six hundred pounds a year, Is the cry that greets the triumphs of The County Engineer.

Though the roads we tread are sticky and the hills we climb are stiff, While we curse the County Council let us all remember if We’d settled in this district with the We 'would realise the value of hardy pioneer . The County Engineer.