To the Editor of the "Norts-Cmuwa Dart Ne Stn,—Resident" said that he hadn't observed anything that the Council had done to benefit the community at large, and his course of observation extended over eleven years.
1 pointed out the Garden extension and the works on the foreshore as examples of my mode of observation Agitator" chips in and gets on my track. which is all as it should be, but it Avoan't affect the original point very LU's quite a simple matter to find fantt with the Municipal Council or the Police force, but the tendency seems tu be to everlastingly slang these two bodies and neither to recognise nor acknowledge what they do accomplish, It is trifling to place the provi chairs" as the first on th dens are excellently supplied with soating accommodation and know of no public perk anywhere in which one could Gul chairs or benches sutticient for everyone if they all wanted 10 sit down at on crowded urea It is well when writing to news apers as person of standing to be reasonable The tramway question for instance was only decided a shore time back, un how can one expect such " large undertaking to nuiterialise jo few months! Tt tokes month for the agents here to communicate fully with their principals "Agitator " should at least try to look at the other side of the question, and might remember that quite a number of people are not wildly interested in garden seats and opium bulks, and that in spite of its misdeeds this Settlement still retains the title of "model," which the Council and its predecessors have surely had something to do with.
My complaint is that the rates never seem to decrease appreciably, but still the your-book tends to show that work of various kinds is going on in spite of what your correspondents tell us, Tam, ote., A Grirrix, 3rd August.
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