NOT SATISFIED.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 6

NOT SATISFIED.

(To the Editor.)' Sir, I read the Council discussion re grading of Thackeray Street hill ■with disgust. Fancy spending a large sum of money In cutting down a hill for, say, about two dozen houses, the owners of which went up -there with their eyes open, and the roads in the present disgraceful state. Look at Norton Road, where thousands are passing -continually, and many other places equally rotten, and yet they want to go and dump a large sum in grading a hill for a few. Such a brainless suggestion, at this time I never heard. If they are mad on hill-cutting, ■let them give us' some return for our money and cut where it will benefit the most people—say Anglesea Street hill, so as to make a road to the railway station, instead of going into Victoria Street and down Ward Street to the station, thus relieving Victoria Street of some of its congestion with less wear and tear on roads. The clay could be used in, say, making up a good high terrace by the Winter Show buildings for the Town Hall, or take the earth to the section at the corner of Seddon and Ward Street to raise it up where they have decided to put the Town Hall, and sell the remaining sections for building. Have you not got any brainy men in Hamilton or on the board? Look at the work done on River Road recently just past the Memorial Park. Instead of a gool man with a decent pair of horses (not hacks) and scoop and plough, there they are with a tip-cart and three, and perhaps more, men. Cut out those antiquated methods and give us something up-to-date. lam not asking for the discharge of men, but we want men with some brains who will give us more work. Go anywhere and you will see men chip, chip with grubbers and shovels. Take the rust oft your plough and get your old grader from the dump and a live man with brains, and we would get twice as much work done. When a man tips a -load let him just leave it a bit level; a minute then would help, but when the grass grows through it later it requires more work, besides being an eyesore.—l am, etc., ONE OF THE DISSATISFIED.