ROADS AT BIRMINGHAM.
In response to a request made by the settlers on the road between Birmingham uud Pemberton, the Government promised to expend a sum of £300 in effecting necessary repairs to make the road passable during the winter. A gentleman connected with tho Lands Department was sent up, with a number of men to do the work, but with a strange preversity on somebody's part the money was expended in making roads at the State Farm, with the exception of a sum of £20 which was laid out on Bull Flat, about teu miles past Birmingham. The matter has been brought under the notice of Mr Pirani, M.H.R., who has promised to interest himself, aud to let the Hon. Mr Reeves know that the promises he made when he visited the district in question have not been carried out. It is a great pity that tho Ministry should fail to keep faith with these settlers who only applied for assistance from the Government when they were unable to do the work, for the simple reason that they had already taxed themselves to tue utmost limit to make roads with moucy borrowed under the Loans to Local Bodies Act.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 327, 31 May 1894, Page 2
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