LOAN PROPOSALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2416, 3 February 1909, Page 2

LOAN PROPOSALS.

[To the Editor.] Sir, —I am not going to attempt to traverse the opinions you give in your last issue of two local engineers on j the 'Road Roans, but will show the • fill So baste they work on. One assumes j there is no (provision for getting the j storm water off the roads. This is

t crioneous as ruri provision was • provided in the overseer's estimate | tor this and a.lso for closing iup. tihe j deop ditches that are, ugly ami unj sightly, and were originally designed 'by one, if not two of our local engineers. Then the other local engineer assumes the estimates for the road work is based on the estimate of % for Patutahi metal and 2s 9d for Kaitaratahi- shingle. The estimates a re.phased on Patutahi metal costing lls ami Ivaitaratahi shingle costing os, hut since the estimates were framed the overseer has certified that with the new facilities for handling and carting the .gravel and metal, Patutahi metal can bo 'brought in for Bs, and Kaitaratahi shingle for 2s (id, and since the certificate (has been given it has been ascertained that the Government have granted a reduction of 3d a yard on carriage of shingle. 'File original estimates have not been altered hut this clearly shows that there is a. large margin to work on. ■ Cr. Sheridan, in referring to the unsatisfactory position of the drainage loan, according to your repart, .lays the blame upon the shoulders of the ’Mayor who. he says, had the loan porposals submitted in their present form without any reference to his colleagues on the. Council. 'Flic statement ,i'S quite untune and unfair, for, ou the sth of May. 190 S, the day before I took office as Mayor, and at the last meeting of the Council, when Mr. Townlcy presided, the following resolution, proposed by Cr. Bright and seconded by Cr. Williams, was carried with only Cr. Whinrav dissenting, viz:—“That the Council approve of the sewerage scheme as submitted by Mr. Mestaye-r, and that the Borough Solicitor be instructed to prepare details to put before the ratepayers for the purpose of taking a noil on the following terms.” Then follow the three heads, one for £20,000 outfall sewer., £35,000 for sewage areas 1,2, and 3, si ml the £IO.OOO for house connections. This resolution as a whole was handed over to the solicitor and he drew the proposals in accordance with the instructions em bodied in the above'resolut ion and so far as I am able to judge ho has correctly done so, hut to blame me with something I had nothing to do with and never approved of is carrying matters a little too far.—l am, etc., W. DOUGLAS LYSNAR.