WAIMANA ARGUMENT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, 2 May 1941, Page 5

WAIMANA ARGUMENT

kirkblude'S road again

- DELIBERATE OBSTRUCTION " CLAIMED The much debated Kirkbride's I Road, fVaimana, just managed "id gain! access to the proceed- \ ings of ; ik e County Council last ||fc week -when a couple of late ' received 1 and* dealt with in the afternoon. iMr H A Wardlaw, in hits comv. "tnunicatioji said that he undeirstood It was thf council's intention to take partlof his property to com- | ; pletet Kirl| ,ritle ' s Road - do nol i think it is quite fair to take land I from me j|st to make a roadi for one i ■ other settler,'' he wrote. "I am prej pared to'give a rigiht-of-way to the \ - council fo| use as a road if Kirk- * bride is prepared to close the gates | *• erected bylyour council on the ro^-i •a fair —trr r lfhTid*e. on the other hand ■' drew attention to obstructions plac- ' ed. deliberately on 1 a bridge leading : -to his homestead,. "I have to re* iport to the council that there has -been a further interference onKirlc- ; • bride's Road on the evening of the 10t!h of April by placing of will'ow 2logs across the decking, om the t • western end of the bridge," he stati -«d. "The logs- were placed just 1-jroundi a bend where the road dip?

* - to thel bridge filling and could not v tie observed until almost on them. .Any motor vehicle on the road half -■an hour later (that is after dark) ' would have had an accident."

' A, Maori employed by H. A. Ward- " Saw has admitted the offence to the ? ;Dolice and I would respectfully asl< the council, as the road has been -obstructed frequently, -to assist, the police to obtain, a substantial penalty with a view to preventing any further interference. I have been, blamed! by the County ■Chairman for not, closing gates but would point out to thei Councillors that the biggest offender is the adowner who'leaves the gates t-open continually for his own conj venienoe and then asks the council | to prosecute others who do so.

} Mr H. Wardlaw's representations I that.l am responsible for his cows rstrayingi is alii incorrect. His -cows are never driven, to their paddocks after itiilMngs, but turned out from the shed to wander along the roads. I phss them on the cutting in the evenings where they -can travel "a milje, and a half towards my boundary and several times last week were grazing on Richardson Road a quarter of a -mile from his property. I think the time is overdue foi this persecution of a ratepayer to -cease and the iroad put into the same l order as: other roads. TM fe.ud., as reported in the 'Beacon' ■dates from the time of the election of the present riding member. I , fully understood; when I agreed to that the matter would be finished with the!;." Without further discussion the -council referred bother letters to the works committee for consideration,, Cr McCready remarking that the placing of logs across the roadway was a 'very dangerous; practice.'