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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1926, Page 4

At the last meeting of the Featherston County Council the engineer bitterly complained of the want of consideration shown by motorists wnen road improvements were going on. He suggested closing roads on which work was in progress. Motorists, he said, would continually travel along the centre of the road and spurt- out the metal that was being rolled, and cause endless trouble and expense. In view of these representations, the council decided that when a start was made on the main road from Featherston to Mart in borough, traffic should be diverted. The engineer (remarks a local paper) overlooked the ■ fact that many motorists are a law unto themselves, and that nobody has a right on the road but themselves Before relegation to the Dead Leiter Office, the lost letter gets every chance, and postal officials are very earnest in their endeavours to set a vaguely addressed missive on the right track (says an exchangel. To the Dunedin Po«t Office the other dav came a letter addressed "Manager,” and as there are nne or two managers in Dunedin the officials were nt a loss what Io do with it. An investigation of the contents revealed half a dozen short epistles written on small sheets of dark yellow nnper. The mail room, s'lnerinfendenl has snenf some time trying to solve the meanin" of the crvntic contents and to Innate the writer, but so f nr he has been vnsi’eees'fnl. Tnless It. i« some pointless hoax the postal officials hone •hat the description nf the paper will bring tn li"ht the sender of the letter, failing which it will go the way of other lost letters.