OUR COUNCILLORS AND SANITARY REFORM.

Western Star, Issue 147, 1 July 1876, Page 5

OUR COUNCILLORS AND SANITARY REFORM.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—Will you oblige by inserting the following in your non-responsible columns ? All wise and judicious means that the Corporation will adopt to abate nuisances will be welcomed by every intelligent man in the community ; but, judging from the start made, it would appear as if they are going to carry out those matters in the same manner as they spend the public money—with unequalness to classes, partiality to friends, and prejudice to others ; and that a few of the ratepayers only, who are doing as much as anybody to improve the township and raise the rates, and who ought to expect protection from unfairness and assistance from the Corporation to make their localities clean and accessible, are to find in those sanitary measures a greater nuisance than the one from which they are to be relieved. It was an act of valour for Admiral Nelson to pub his spy-glass to the “blind eye.” For a Councillor to do so in the execution of duty is not-so noble after all. An Inspector of Nuisances who is blind in one eye would or should nob be worthy of the confidence of Couneilthe ; and any Councillor with the loss of an eye is not worthy to receive the confidence of the ratepayers. No one feels more deeply conscions than myself that in. a small pettifogging place like Riverton the voters will require all the discrimination they possess to choose representatives with perfect eyesight and thorough candour, and those perfectly free from the failing of Annanias and his beloved and faithful wife.—l am, &c., William Roberts. Riverton, June 29, 1876.