THE ROADS.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE DCTSSTAN TIMER.) Sir, —Being one of the surface men employed on the road between Clyde and Cromwell, I cannot allow " Traveller's" letter of last week to pass without reply. 1 have been a resident in Cromwell for the last five years, and am 1 trust too well known as a steady and conscientious workman, to fear .any damage to my character by the remarks made in that letter. My total silence on thp subject, however, might cause an impression that those remarks were true. There is not a shadow of truth in the statement, that we (my mate and myself) " turn out at about ten o'clock in the morning, and leave off between three and four in the afternoon."—As for our mode of repairing damaged places in the road, I would most respectfully leave that to our employer, and to regular travellers, such as Messrs Hazlett or Ziele, or their representatives, they are almost daily travellers to and from Clyde and Cromwell, and surely not inexperienced ones as I strongly suspect " Traveller " is. And now Mr. Editor, I have to inform " Traveller " that if he will only be kind enough in your next issue to publish bis name, and the date of his next appearance on our road, we will endeavor to make the way smooth for him. I am Ac. THOMAS SCREEN, Surface Man. Cromwell. June 29, 1868.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 323, 3 July 1868, Page 3
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236THE ROADS. Dunstan Times, Issue 323, 3 July 1868, Page 3
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