Harbor Block Chips

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 104, 1 March 1892, Page 2

Harbor Block Chips

[from our own correspondent.] Much inconvenience is experienced in ihe last sold portion of this block owing to the want of roads. The Wanganui llarbor Board, with its characteristic par.simoniousnsss, is pursuing the shortsighted policy of submitting their land for sale without first roading it. This appears to me to be a financial mistake, a save penny, lose pound policy, as most .settlers would willingly pay a pound an acre more for land, on a good road, and thereby save themselves the numberless disadvantages consequent, on having to travel miles of dirty bush track. Tha valuation just concluded nearly doubles the value of rateable property in this district, which means a corresponding increase iv the rates, already severe enough, but as they seem equal to present exigencies, I would respectfully suggest to the Warden, that if he could see his way, to suspend the collection of the county rate, the great majority of the settlers would regard such action with hearty approval. Those canny settlers who had the wisdom to sow their grass seed as soon as their bush was burned have, thanks to the generous showers of rain, had their eyes gladdened by seeing their young grass shooting already. Nem\ Con. Sow your grass seed as soon as the ashes are cool.