THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE SUMMIT ROAD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 360, 30 December 1879, Page 2

THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE SUMMIT ROAD.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail

Sir,—The letter of -'Another Ratepayer" in your issue, of the 26th seems to my mind so amusing that' I ask for space to reply. The Sumnit road, to as being re-graded ahs with all the bays as he says, I wish jto v ask him if it in any way is connected with Flea Bay, Stony Bay, Long: Bay*; Or Paiia Bay, and many minor bays,an;the coast, where twenty thousand acres of land has been sold and nothing spent| and! where a large number of ratepayers live-, arid have never received any return for theigrates, and their land fimd has been spent elsewhere?; As I understand j; the case to' which he, refers, Mr Armstrong,, who has made application to fhe Road Board'7and • County Council both, to have the Balguerie road made which leads' through his property, and opens up for settlement! a Targe extent of valuable land, as also the Flea Bay and Stony Bay estates. The."'Akaroa Mail has often givin us .the.... Road ißoard song of Bates'road, Bell's road, Morgan's roadj and Odell's road. ... If .the accounts published be true, Mr Armstrong, I venture to say, has paid more rates, and very much more in land fund towards road making than those just named, but he is, about as successful in getting roads as those living in the bays abovenamed. If tho County Council wish to stultify themselves, as they evidently did at their last meeting, I have no wish to join issue with them about that, but I note the member who proposed the motion for grading the Summit road has been largely in the grading line in his placejon the Road Board, and evidently has grading on the brain. He has managed to grade the Road Board funds to a pretty low level and report says he is getting sick by grading himself down. It is to be hoped when funds come in again he will be restored to health by the application of engineering pap. I wish now to inform " Another Ratepayer " that "I cannot see why people will rush into print before they have considered the arguments about which they write." I have now heard his braying, and only wish to see his ears to: know what sort of animal " Another Ratepayer " is. Yours, &c, CHOU. Akaroa, Dec. 27.1879.