Original Correspondence

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 445, 26 October 1880, Page 2

Original Correspondence

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ROAD To the Editor. ;

Sir,—Will you kindly alloiv! me space to niake a fe\v* remarks'on , th6"'ppper portion of the Balguerie road, that has lately been ( ionned .by the. County CJpnncil.to, open up Mr Armstrong's property ? How : the rriembereof the, Gounty; Council: could: : vote away public money on such a line of road I for one cannot make out. I think ;the ilbad Board wore perfectly right 'not ito accept the paltry sum the Council : offered"them to ; make'the road ; f - and J 'hWi the Council shown their strength in this, the first work they took in hand, they ; would confidence of the ratepayers. - T instead of which, ninety,per cent, of them say the sooner the Council is wound up,the v better. ... |f ..

Instead of bantering-with M»|llifiß fltid Lelievre, why did they not take' the bul by the horns, put.the Public W.orksAct in force, and, make a. gopd, road,, tljat would, have been ; accredit >to Such a piece of .engineering ie not to be Been anywhere ori BanW • Fteninsnlas«'And* then, to , make thingi worse, as.soon as the road is finished, they allow Mr Lelievre to erect a fence along' the|'«iuld)e* of Jhe road for about a chain, and atop all traffic on it, till Mr Armstrong ent a hew piece along the any unfortnnate e feftrnfcker who happens to run foul of the corner post will stand a good cha'nfcq ty latid the very least 150 ft below , (he level Vf* road. • /■■ *■> '! t- ' l •

Mr Armstrong will find ft impossible to bring timber down f pin, hiß|inill. till either the Council of tlie Road R .ard take some of the points Uiff," and- ease : the grades rqufrd thetii ,, a littler -People liiayAthinli, perhaps toifitHJhV is- is 'aft Wrieense, cause Mr Armstrong has beeri* "successful in getting mabhiheVy ivpi the* road ;3"buij Mr Editor,! can/(Wertre, you tthat/tbero ia I more dangerin taking, one ton down than 1 three.np.;, the fjointp being: %\\: onvihe/jSteqpest par^e,, makes Jtj c^ T tremeiy .darigefco^is—at, 4e ;r my opinion ; and if twenty years' experience; as a drivel froads is worth anything, *he vtooner tho work I have mentioned is done the better, or your journal will be thrilling our nerves with, the account of some bad accident.. If those who have' the power' haVe , a spark of in thetn, now they see. t Mr, Aruir strongs bns got hie mill ion the ground, they will do all in thoir power to help, him;to get a paseable road, to get his timber to 'market. It certaiuly ,is a pluoky speculation in these times, and deserves the support of the publicJ mainstay of the, country, and- Akaroa has already felt the loss 'of "several large mills in the district; arid! tiiey 's'h'&ild bail with pleasure tbo arrival of sucli.agrani {>ieee of machinery as I am told Mr' Armstrong's is, with all the latest appliances connected with a saw-mill.—l am, etc.,

f-' ,3 •■•''* SPC-'tM^'LION.