AN AKITIO COUNTY COMPLAINT.
Sir, —Would you kindly giro mo spaco to pass a few romarks with regard to tho methods adopted by tho Akitio Comity Council for installing roads and keeping same in repair? Home tim« ago a loan was Taised for the purpose of metalling most of tho main roads in Hie Akitio county. Good crushed rock is being u.'ed for tho purpose of molalling. Tho metal is being spread ten inches in depth and would make a first-class road if attended to. But, alas, Iho metal is dumped on the road and that appears to lie the end of it. On miles of now metal (hero is not a man attending to it, and yards of mofcal aro being 'worked over the side of the road by passing .stock. The writer would liko to know how much longer this state of affairs is going to last. Also who is going to pay for tlio metal that is wasted through sheer neglect. If tho council are to blame it is timo they rosigned in a body and allowed a more progTcssivo and active body of men to manage tho affairs of this county. And if, tho overseer is at fault, it is high timo ho was made to attend to the metal and put n stop to (his waste of ratepayers' money.—l am, etc., DISGUSTED.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 6
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227AN AKITIO COUNTY COMPLAINT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 6
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