Birmingham Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 27, 1 August 1893, Page 2

Birmingham Notes

It would open the eyes of some of the former residents of Feilding to see the changes that nre taking place in this township, one vast alteration is the means of conveyance to and fro. Conch owners and drivers come and yo, but bin we still have the civil and obliging, the well known and respected S. Daw, who has been on the roud so long and has the best wishes of nil for his future success. The roads are now being attended to and metal being laid, but the drays bringing the metal are cutting the roadway up m a fearful manner so that almost double the quantity of metal specified to be laid will be required if a good job is to be made of the road, To an outsider like your correspondent, it seems a bad system to lay the metal on top of the vtud. In other districts you always observe the mud scraped of! so that the metal has a chance of " binding " and has much more solid " bed "to rest upon. I snrpose Mr Editor you seldom, same as the members of the " Kiwitea Koad Board " ever visit Birmingham. How we wish we could see Mr Chairman, and Wardens with Secretary and Engineer all on foot floundering in the mud over boot-tops deep on the road-way from the Town Hall on to the level bit of road on the top of the hill. If there was only one member residing in the district what a change would take place in a very short time. The roadway is a perfect "slough of despond." No females dare go along the road on foot, visiting the ttores, post office, church on Sundays, or any of the entertainments at the Town Hall nnd yet the rates are heavier each year. It is time the inhabitants and settlers held an indignation meeting and passed a strong rote of censure on all concerned ,in this disgraceful affair. Even the aged roadman is missing ; some say he got lost in the bog holes — let us hope it is not so. Our worthy host, at " our only hotel," evidently thinks that a great trade is in store for this place, as he has bad the large yard attached to the hotel roofed in, and has also erected large rooms. They will be verj useful in case of one of the coaches getting upset in the pit holes which abound along the road, and would make a very good country hospital. Save the journey to Palmerston.