ENGINEERING IN PARNELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4482, 25 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

ENGINEERING IN PARNELL.

; i To'the Editor of the Herald. - j Sir, —TVhen the mountain will not come to yon, what then? Yon must 'go to it. ** A stabber in the dark" is allowed to carry on his vocation in yours of this morning, under the flimsy pretext of chaffing the Parnell Board (or circle). Their overseer is dubbed a '? civil engineer," a title he ignores is covering any amount of assurance, but he is'"a ware' that • some so styling themselves covet biH place in the Board. _ He is also aware of the obstructive's chagrin because he would not run the risk of life or limbs to comply with their wishes. There was enough 6f-" danger" to do it as it has been done, and although the whole of the work was done by the road meri*or'labourers under me; masons not liking the dirty work, it has not cost the Board anything like £100. The statement that the culvert is " about a couple of: feet above the level of the cutting" needs no refutation, any person not under the influence of alcohol, or (what I deem worse) false information, must have been lamentably ignorant of what " feet and inches" mean io have made it. The new culvert has four times-the area of water-way that the old one had, and which had done duty for years with only two feet superficial water-way. j The; new culvert has more than eight. feet J superficial water-way,.and has to receive the | water from a drain of about half its size. It 1 is a very simple and easy matter to lower the j bottom of the drain above by digging, and ( then to talk of sills being above, and science i and Newton being stultified.—l am, &c., ■ ! ' " 1 ' J. B. Strange. I