A GREHAN VALLEY GRIEVANCE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 427, 24 August 1880, Page 2

A GREHAN VALLEY GRIEVANCE.

To the Editor.

Sir, —It seems to me rather a poor excuse of the Road Board, i.e., the want of funds. In some cases this is righ enough, but where people have volunteered to repair certain roads, and wait till it suits the Board to pay them, I think the least the Board could do would be to carry on these repairs. I refer to the Grehan Valley Road, which Mr D. Curry offered to repair at cons'derably under what any body else vrould. Half a culvert is nowcarried away, and another culvert stopped up ; after the road crosses the creek, it is impassable. It seems to me. Mr Editor, a very poor excuse that the Road Board can't find funds to repair this road, or some part of it, when only a few weeks ago they could find money to repair their stables. I for one, Mr Editor, with many others, am beginning to think that the

Road Board is merely a set of men who try to get and keep in repair the roads to their own residences, and for the rest they seem neither to know nor care.

The suggestions of Mr Williims seem fair enough, and are generally well seconded : but how are they carried out? The Boad Board have met for the last three months, and will anybody tell me what good they have done? The clerk gets his salary, and what does he do ? He was ordered to giv« Mr David Curry the specifications for repairing the Grehan Valley road ; he does no such thing—he never goes near the place. He makes a deliberate statement to the Road Board that Mr David Curry was unwilling to do the work for the stated sum. Mr Williams suggests that Mr Curry be referred to ; it is seconded, etc.; Mr Curry never hears anything about it, and would not have known anything about it but for seeing it in your paper. He then writes a letter to the Board, and ie put off with the old tale of " want of funds." There are two things I should like to know, Mr Editor : First, whose duty is it to see that those things agreed on by the Board are done ? Sacond, whose fault is it if they are not ? Answer me, Mr Editor, and believe me—Yours, etc., TRUTH.