WAIPARA COUNTY ROADS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16159, 13 March 1918, Page 5

WAIPARA COUNTY ROADS.

TO THK EDITOR OV "THE PRSS3 Sir,—l am glad to see a letter signed "Rotaiv" in your paper to-day, and wiU deal with it seriatim. I suspect that "Rotaiv" knows perfectly well who wrote the letter that appeared over the signature of "Viator," or, it he does not, at least three of the county councillors do, and probably oO per cent, of the people up in the ridings mentioned. Let that pass. If the councillors are too busy to attend to tho business they proposed themselves for, or at least allowed themselves to be proposed for at is their own fault. They knew that they were doing tho job for nothing. The Piddrng that follows is not to tho P£ int \ body knows as well as Rotaiv' that labour is scarce, and dear shearing, or war time. And this brings up the real point. Tho cottage hospital will not build itself, and may take twentv men to build it, and probably a vear in time.' If twenty men can be got for that purpose, why cannot two So got to patch the roads? Vith. regard to the present Council having only been in office for five weeks, I would point out that the persons who are on a County Council do not matter, as the Council is a permanent affair, although I grant that it may be run better under certain administrations than under others. , , , . Shearing and harvest times ax© not the times a well-managed Council take to mend roads, as "Rotaiv" knows as well as 1 do. In conclusion, can ' Rotaiv/' either under his own name or li's "pen one, honestly say that tho road from "Waipara to Cheviot is in an even decent state of repair ? Ratepayers pay road rates to have the roads kept m order; they pay hospital rates extra for the upkeep of the Christchurch Hospital. "What is the harm in asking that the road rates be spent on the roads? —Yours, etc., ' VIATOR.