A COMPLAINT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1084, 26 October 1883, Page 2

A COMPLAINT.

To the Editor.

gia,—l am a constant reader of your valuable journal, and about once a month I see a report of the Wakanui Road Board meeting. I doubt not for a moment that this Board does a great deal of good in the district, making roads, etc., —but I will dive straight into the cause of this complaint. Last night I had occasion to be travelling in a trap along oni of the roads through that suburb of Ashburton known as Hampstead, and having been along that road several times previously I concluded it was still as safe as heretofore. I told the driver the road was a very good one and he let the animal he was steering go along at a moderately quiet trot. When opposite Dailey’s (the carrier) the serenity of our progress was rudely disturbed, I received a severe concussion of the spinal column ; I do not know whether my companion received any injury, but he said s unething that shall not be repeated here. You have the effect ; nuw for the cause. We proceeded to investigate and soon discovered that the cause of all this trouble was a box culvert, the top of which was bare, and some of the pieces of timber composing it gone. It is a serious matter for such a state of things to exist. Why should life and limb be endangered when the ratepayers keep an overseer to look after these things ? Does the said overseer sit down in his office and wait for the people to tell him what it is his business to know ?—I am, etc., Sorb Bones. October 26, 1883.