CEMETERY ROAD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 323, 22 August 1879, Page 2

CEMETERY ROAD.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail.

Sir, —I am certainly with you, and, as you say, ankle deep in reference to your remarks re the Btate of the Church • of England Cemetery road, and knowing something of this matter, and of the cause which has led to its present stale, perhaps it may not be out of place in the first instance to atate what has led to the present disgraceful position of affairs. The fact is that ever eince Akaroa was proclaimed a borough, a kind of divided responsibility has existed in regard to the maintenance of this road, the greater portion of which I believe so far as I have been able to ascertain, belongs to the Borough, and the Road Board having gone in for a cemetery of their own at Duvauchelle's Bay, both parties have neglected a duty at which the instincts of our common humanity ought to feel aggreived. Perhaps this view may be looked upon as somewhat ultramontane by those who > in the present day are continually preaching '•Funereal " Reform, and change in everything ; aye, come to changing our natural instincts which can never be wholly done, for as water always will find its own level so' will nature revolt against what is unnatural, and I chime in with you, Mr Editor, not for the sake of a pair of muddy boots, but because I feel that the memory of those we have loved should be cherished ; and not only within the sacred

precincts of the lot apportioned to receive the last remains of our earthly treasures should every trace of a fond remembrance be apparent, but the roadway leading to the same should certainly not be forgotten and neglected. Will the kind authorities., in question jointly or separately^ns.trying. to improve their own ways,' , rsMem6Sr and" try to improve the muddy' -ana riiirrow way leading to the Cemetery.! / : Yours, &'ci» • ! ( ■ HUMANITARIAN.