SPREYDON AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11359, 10 April 1915, Page 7

SPREYDON AFFAIRS.

| TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I have the greatest respsct'for : men who yive time and talent to the ; service of the community in which ; they live, but in your issue of the 3rd instant. Councillor G. H.Rudd, whether : u> i»in .notoriety or througk lack of : ktu>>vlede.e oi Spreydon affairs, makes ; the misleading .staumien!'. that there ha.-> been no ixoe.vsive expenditure in 1 Spreydon. i'hiij ,i-> like adding insult | to injury, for in'-tkreo years in Sprey-

; dun, the council lias bud no svstcin, j never lias worked to any estimate. or ! any stancia-id. Muddle, absolute inuu- | die! In Selwyu Street, tho coutiioil i delivered ilunglo- irom iheir emu pit. I charged, it p to the general account lat 7>> dd per yard. A local contractor ! would have delivered it for 4,s per i yard, from his own pit. The same has j boon dune on .Mill Kc.ad, charged up | at os ud where n contractor would bavu Ido no it for 3a. Take- Bedruth Avenue, ! etc.. the water scheme .t'soo was un-

, fairly taken out of the general ae- ! count to put hisrb presMie water into j those streets. no provision being ; ic::d-.5 to pay it- back into the general : account. The borough council built a. : m -ti.il..- jor iv>o horse.-; .u- scmtc £SO, and : wheu it was iimsiied i: was too small ' ;n ,-ovr>r t oeir tail.-> so that it- had to I.', robuilt. Thoy then bought tuo i horses and drays which cost almost ; Oil and 'J-'W worth of ciiaif. and the I forema;; thai reported that he could i not work the horses to advauiago. The ! council pa d a borough building bvi law. iind those councillors' that it would ; liiwo iippHtnl to took niaplo precaution to safeguard themselves before the soal was placed on. II proved such a dumper on tiie- V>rougb that the ratopa ye' « aau it L'-npuiled right away. ! 'i'akr: _ the electric lighting scheme ! brought forward by Councillor Wiiwor, ; itnd supported by Councillor lludd. as ! published some weeks ago in your oq]- : utnns. Had it not beta for C'-ounctl- ■ lor a I'- Sj'kes and Woods, a mora cost- ; ly proposition would never have been j placed before an intelligent people, j Sir, I submit the majority of the conn- ' cillors have been guilty of excessive expenditure and havo exceeded their income in three yars by over .C300(1, and have alienated the best asset they hint in 'be borough. pnMie contidence. 1 :up "'if to C-nuieiUur T.

Woods or f!i!.v • ii-'r avj.ir.mt l«v tli«* irtc-yoralt.y who ouks .->dr:: ivom novor-do-we!! policy pr.i-.-.uoii for the three vr.ir;... . f .nr.. u' . PH()(iitKfsS '.Vl'I \ \ i ; :r-)NO.MV. "■'o riiT EDU'O/V Sir,- -With vour }>er"i;iis.-;;os s . 1 would lik'> to :n!orm Councillor luui'i that I have never refund to :ui:ivt iiis questiou.. whether he wrote over ill' 1 nom <i? plume of •• Pair play," or his own signature, or :ih < 4 t Councillor Winsor'o committee. What I ft a. ted lias f I answered a!! his questions the night I resigned ihe chairmanship oi the Firrrtnc. 1 Commutes and ho was prewnr on that occasion. but 1 would, during my election addresses, answer any questions from the public platform. I still state it will give me exceedingly great pleasure to answer these questions during my public addresses. to the electors ot Spreyaoji, which is much more straight forward Than a {.king i'jueshions over u noni de plume. [ would also like to inform Councillor R-udd I bare not corresponded ro the daily papers daring the pretent campaign under p. noiu do plume.—l nm. etc.. T. WOODS. Sprcydon. April S. 191 o.