CORRESPONDENCE, THE WAY THE RATEPAYERS' MONEY GOES.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 169, 11 September 1886, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE,

THE WAY THE RATEPAYERS' MONEY GOES.

Under no circumstance is the Editor responsible for the matter contained in correspondence.

(to the editor.) Sir.— Will you kindly allow me to draw the attention of the long-suffering ratepayers of this Hiding to the tri- angular duel, that has been going on for the last twelve months, or more, between Messrs Clarke, Mackie, and the Piako Connly Council, re the great drain business. It seems that having been before the council times innumerable, with various results, t*nd a great deal of heartburning ; having been filled up, and cleared out at the ratepayei s' ex-* pense times out of number; having been viaited by a deputation of said county councillors, who wisely or otherwisely, copied the decision of the wisest man, by determining to divide the evil equally, and allow the two disputants each to 'take half the water; and having gone to the trouble and expense of providing the means for effecting an equal division of the liquid, it seems they are not yet satisfied, and that (the monstrous state Bridge and Whitaker streets notwithstanding), the time of the solitary surface man, whose utmost energies can make little impression on the before mentioned streets, must be occupied in emptying the said drain, only to be refilled as toon as bis beck gets turned ; ~o be again; - emptied at the expense of the ratepayers. I would humbly suggest to our county solons, the advisability of consulting the oldest inhabitant as to the original watercourse ; if this were done; it would be found that neither of the disputants are entitled to the water, in fact that the water was diverted from its original and natural course, in order to supply the necessary wants of one of the disputants, who, having no further use for it, seems determined that some one else who does not want it, shall have it after it leaves his premises, even, though, being at the trouble after it has left his pretnises of trespassing en the public highway i »nd blocking up the drains thereon. Would it not be better Mr Editor, instead of clearing the drain to send the surface man to direct the water into its old and proper channel, and thus pat an end to the drain on the pocket* of the ratepayers — I am etc. Fair Play. ■ Te Aroha. Bth Sept., 1886.