Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 109, 4 March 1893, Page 2

Correspondence

A COMPLAINT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAB* Sir, — Can you inform me through the; medium of your " answers to correspondents" if the Kiwitea Road Board is responsible for any accident that may happen to travellers from trees overhanging the rood. On the road from Birmingham to Pemberton there are a number of dead trees, some on tbe road and others on the front of sections, and all a source of danger to the traveller. Day and night the limbs from these trees are falling on the road. Several times I have had to get out of my bnggy to remove a mass of limbs before being able to pass. On one occasion — in tbe dark — I was riding along when a tree, without any warning, came crashing on the road not twenty yards from my horse's bead, and as there are so many sharp bends in the road it would be almost impossible to escape from a falling tree. It would cost yery little for tbe board to fell these trees, and compel the owners of sections to fell tbe trees adjacent: to the road-line. Some day there will be a fearful accident to record when it will too Jato for tho board to redeem a valuable life, and may be lives. But they will be mulcted in heavy damages for the loss of life or limb through this criminal negligence in not removing a certain source of danger while there is yet time. Thanking you in anticipation for inserting this. I am, etc., Pkoteus. [You should consult a solicitor. — Ed. F.S.J