MILLERS FLAT

Mt Benger Mail, 25 March 1914, Page 3

MILLERS FLAT

CREAKS FROM THE BRIDGE. The Tuapeka County Council era learning by experience the diilic llty ol getting a Minister or his ouicials to iook at things hum a given point oi view, and it requires ail their n*tive and acquired philosophy to s;and it. Having pointed out that the bridge was endangered cy erosion on the right bank of tho river, and the necessity for protective works for the settlers' lands and the bridge itatlf, the Council is now informed thjt the bridge can be saved at an expense ol £I9UO, of which one-half might be p a id by the Government if the county tind tke other.

That is a regular nose-ender to a County Council which can hardlyj make 1 both ends meet, and may have to get a loan to put the arterial road m decent order. They asked for breed and have been otlered a stone.

The incidents connected with the business are really amusing. It will be remembered that the visits of engineers wore made in secret; that they acquired no facts at all, and came to their conclusions by means of their own super sensitiveness. ISo little did they care for the subject of the main road that rather than travel by it they ran down ironi Roxburgh all the way to Lawrence over a road condemned for traffic !

The cause of the danger to the bridge was pointed out to the minister aad suggestions made for preventing it. Any suggestion in that direction seenia beneath motice. let iii)oo would do a lot to preserve the right bank. In uny case the Couaxy Council cannot be satished until soirn her an thority than the Engineer m-Cnief hai considered the condition- o .-- bridge. How to bring this aU. -i- ; "h«» to see. There are plenty ot Ministers Kicking aoout but they have no time ior the Flat. There is a grand cuauce for Mr bcott, M.F., cLslingtaihing himself. Let him get up a petition to Parliament, drum up his irienda to suppoiw it, make a general nuisance oi himself if so genteel a person eouid be so lar gunty, ana bloc*, business unui he gets satisfaction. Tnat is tne way to rise to eminence. Meantime, while my big brother Roderick McDonald and Mr Bennetts stand by lam not the only voice tAat crieth from the wilderness to make the crooked paths straight.