ROLLESTON-STREET.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1688, 1 June 1874, Page 2

ROLLESTON-STREET.

- iTo' the Editor -of the Eveniog Star.) S^r:B?? 6 few" *»&■"■&>; when'our Borough T?ouncilljrrs w«re ' voting tfe salaries to the Town* Clerk and others I-musticonfess 1 AKbuafht .them a very liberal set of men; but I find that when the ratepayers ask only for their "rights, these so-calle.d liberal men will not grant ' to them those rights." I refer to Bolles-ton-street—the ouly street I know of within (he Borough that has not a footpath on one side; orboth/ and that is not passable,in wet weather. Other,streets upon which money hasten expended in this particular are offers importance than Rolleston-street, for there is more traffic along this street on Sundays than any other that I know of on the. Thames. Before' somo of* our-.present Councillors were elected to office, they were loud enough in their cries of the injustice which "the Highway Boards had'heaped on the residents of this locality, and not without- oause,-^-we have"only' had five pounds expended "on our footpath since was, a footpath -rtjie remainder has bejen .done * privately, — and yet the Borough Council have the nerve to ask vi i» contribute 11 one half the cost j and, mind you, this must be handed over to the Council- that they may salt it for us. I wonder whether they will have the nerve to ask us for rates. .1 should think our worthy Mayor * has never taken a walk along Bolleston-Btreet after a fewhours' rain. If he has, he is not the man I took him for, and that is, a just man. But I do not wonder at Highway Boards and Borough Councillors imposing on as, when we have not the manliness to demand our own.

W. Piak*.