Borough Improvements

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6279, 28 September 1922, Page 3

Borough Improvements

* [To the Editor.] gj r _,Batepayers, those vbo pay tate# bat ere not called ratepayers, coantry, oooaiDS and visitors to our town must have noticed the energetic way in which the Borough Council has tackled the improvement oi our streets, but there is one great work of improvement which is likely to epcape notice.'unless attention is drawn 'to it. It is indeed the greatest of all. Of course I refer 'to the final bit of metalling done ou the (once) soft road. That has been completed within the last few days and it is a great work well done. It will stand as a monument of wisdom and far seeing, for years to come. The advantages of that seventeen chains of metalling ou the road that leads nowhere and serves'no one are many and but I will just mention two Whiob appeal to me most. Firstly, when the spirit moves me to pay. a visit to and extend my patronage to mine host of the hostelry there, I can safely venture forth knowing that a beneficent council has given me safe / footing for at leest seventeen chains on the road there. Secondly, when the partner of my .sorrows tells me that she •» has no bacon for breakfast tomorrow ” I can proceed to don my gum boots with some equanimity of spirit, knowing that ( 1 can difcard those necessanes of civilisation at my own street corner and proceed from thence in the ordinary footwear of a town dweller to the place where the pig loses his squeak, get my side of sy, bacon, and return dry-foot to my own . street corner where 1 can resume my * gum boots to negotiate the rest of the way to my own abode. Unfertonately, Mr Editor,- my friend in the next street is not such a optimist as I and does not quite see it in that light. He has an idea that the precipice should be removed from the front of his door and that it Bhould not be necessary for him to get a river master's certificate to enable him to navigate—! mean i riegotiate—two blocks Of his street. By the way, Mr Editor, I gaye that friend of mine a tip about Ijow to get his s reet put into apple * pie order. Here it ip. First of all get your own pet couuoillor to have a resolution passed by the Council that that work shall not be done, then -take Asquith's advice: “Wait and see,'* and hey presto! there you are. But to return to the improvements. I think it only/, fair and light that we should know who the genius is who is responsible for that great work, the metalliDg of the soft road ; such heaven.hotn wisdom, and stubborn determination of purpose should not be hidden from ns. Well do L know that, great man as he is, he will modestly disdain all knowledge of such work, and aver that as far as he knows the metal on the soft road is like Topsy—it just growed. But we who benefit so greatly from this great and wise work must insist on know, ing the author thereof; he is worthy of greater honors, and we mnst bear in mind that the Mayoral election takes place next April. I beseeoh you \ therefore, Mr Editor, to let ns know from out 'your encyclopedic knowledge who this wonderfnl being is—which one of the nine .who are called City fathers—who could see that of all the streets of our town the soft road was the one most needing alteration.—l am, etc., The Great Hi Ham.