FINGER POSTS.
To the Editor of the Alcaroa Mail. Sir, —There is one little matter in connection with the management of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board that I have to appeal to that body through the medium of your columns to ask them to see to. I refer to the want of finger posts at many of the cross roads and along some of what in their statement to the County Council they are pleased' to call main roads. The Little River Board set them an excellent example in this respect; at every possible corner where the ignorant traveller might stray from his proper path, he is directed in the most ample form as to the way wherein he should walk. Along the Purau Track as far aa it is in this district, means should be taken to indicate the way, thia road being frequently used by strangers summonsed from Christchurch in a hurry. It is all very well for natives and those to the manner born to say that there is no difficulty, but when " strangers seek these wilds traversed by few," they are to say the least, entitled to a pose in the shape of a finger-post. A few instances :—The Summit roads are in no case marked neither at Hill-top Hotel I
Pigeon Bay road, nor Little Akaloa saddle; none of the roads to the different bays are indicated, and in Barry's Bay it is difficult to find the way to the fastnesses of the Gael in Wainui. Improbable as it might seem to the local mind, a gentleman from Christchurch the other day rode • a long way along the Long Bay road before he discovered he was not on his way to the .City of the Plains. Where the Long Bay road branches off .'from, the main road five roads diverge, and the only direction given to the wayfarer is that at the end of the new road to Akaroa "No Thoroughfare." If the Board does not care about the suggestion in the first part of my letter, probably some of its numerous staff of engineers, clerk?, inspectors of works, &c, might be directed to pull down the misleading post in question.—Yours, &c, WANDEBING WILLIE. .
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 281, 28 March 1879, Page 2
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370FINGER POSTS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 281, 28 March 1879, Page 2
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