WANTED—A LIVE WARDEN.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 126, 26 November 1895, Page 2

WANTED— A LIVE WARDEN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sik, — I beg to thank you and your correspondent for bringing under the public notice, in your issue of the 6th, the deplorable state of our main road through the township of Livingtone I (alias Tamatu). Our Otara loving Warden, and Chairman to boot, seemingly ; has no interest m common with us, and I doubt if he really knows what the j present state of the roads is, he not living amongst us, and having no occasion to wallow through them, and all for the sake of a few of the many pounds that have been spent on the making and maintaining of the unused road mentioned by your correspondent. Since our genial Engineer has taken to the pneumatic " bike " we have no hopes of him having ocular demonstration of the ! gravQ necessity of bettering their condition. The original road, of a chain wide, is, owing to the growth of vegetation, reduced to about ten feet of slush, which we are compelled to plough through. If part of the money spent on the maintenance of the bridge approaches for the promenade of Maori hens had been used in cutting the scrub on our only road, to let the wind and sun benefit it, I feel sure the ratepayers of this ward would be fully satisfied with the expenditure. The question is, Does our Warden or Engineer know the real state of the existing road, and the small cost it would be to make, comparatively speaking, good? This is only one of the many disagreeable pills we have to swallow, not as in our childhood, with a little jaiH) Or even " cum (jrano scdisJ" The next dose we have to tackle is about thirty chains of a dangerous bridle track which prevents us using the thousands of pounds worth of dray roads we have had to pay for years ago, and are still unable to use ; many vehicles belonging to the settlers stand within view of the main road to their homes, blocked by the above mentioned thirty chains of bridle track, while the unused Vinegar Hill Bridge road is maintained lit for anything in the wheel line. We had hoped that by now packhorses would have been a thing of the past, and the heavy freights hitherto paid by the setters materially reduced. It is to be hoped that the next election will bring forward some energetic settler from among us, as I hear dissatisfaction loudly expressed on all sides at the present state of affairs. I am, etc., S.B.