COLLEGE ROAD.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 2 June 1926, Page 7

COLLEGE ROAD.

To the Editor of “The Timaru Herald.” Sir, —In your sub-'eader of this morning. under the heading “Timely Protest,” you make reference to the chains and chains of asphalt path in College Road etc., and you state that it seems to icipiire explanation etc. Permit me, sir, to say that your remarks appeal to me as a thinly veiled attack on the Mayor, who, everyone now knows, is resident in that locality. In replv I wash to state that it is nowsix years since the South End Ratepayer's Association asked the Council to’form this path, and it is something like 2 years or thereabout since it was authorized, at which time there was no suggestion of the Mayor purchasing the property. The principal reason given bv the Association lor asking for the particular path was, that it is an arterial road, which is used by a large number of clii'dieu going; to and from school ; in addition, the path affords decent walking; for a large number of residents from other parts of the Borough who visit the Timaru Park, or on their wav to the cemetery, flic remarks relating to other parts named [ do not question, I have seen them and know, but ! do leel, sir, that in calling attention to the needs of this or that street, it is quite uiiuceessar,'., and undesirable to in teed nee “personal innuendo.” I recollect that when our deputation waited yn ‘-he *..0111101!, the Mavor argued against the south side of College Road, but on being informed of tie: number of children and adidts who use the path, he withdrew his opposition. This at a time when In* iMr AA’allaee) res tied 111 Albert Street, in the North End of the Borough.—T um etc.,AV. GIBB, President South End Ratepayer's Association. Timaru. May 29, .1920.

[By what strange process of reasoning does our correspondent arrive at ail amazing deduction! But he furnishes a crashing refutation of his own indictment—the Mayor resided in Albert Street, in tile north end of the town, when the College Road job was done! Suffice for our reply is -the famous suvin,14 : “Honi soil u lll pense*. Editor “Timaru Herald.”]