THE ARNOLD AND AHAURA ROAD.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1155, 11 April 1872, Page 2

THE ARNOLD AND AHAURA ROAD.

j TO THE EDITOR.] Sir — It is rumored that instructions have been sent from the Nelson Government to survey the line of road 'between the Arnold river and the Ahaura township. No doubt such instructions are with a view to making the said road at some future date; as, however, the mining population live in the present, looking forward with hope to the future, the mere matter of the survey of the road -is not all that is required; Doubtless the survey will ~be " made— possibly^ brought; before the Nelson Provincial Council, and then condemned ,to the shelf for want of funds. Mr Greenfield, on his late visit, could not well blink the fact- that it ..was. without doubt, the most, urgent piece of work required on the Coast ; but at the same time stated that the Nelson Government 'were not in va position, nor would be for two years to come, to undertake the formation of ..such road. Can your, readers fancy such' "ah absurdity 1 Can they for a moment fancy that ,the Superintendent of Nelson, gifted as- -hje is said to be with , powers ,not only as a politician, .but as a financier, succumb to a .trifling expenditure of nine and a-half miles of road through a' 'country fpresentinp every f ability for such' formation? Surely not. lit cannot imagine, for a moment strike your readers, after all that has been heard of Mr Ourtis's powers, that this can be the reason of the Government not at once proceeding with the work. It; has often been asked why it was. that the Superintendent of Nelson could not find time on his late trip to the coast to visit Grey moutK, seeing that on his previous visit not .only could he find time to visit this town, but likewise to call a public meeting to give the inhabitants his views as to the management of the South-West Gold Fields. Aware that the Annexation, question was on the tapis, no doubt this. was policy on the part of Mr Curtis, as of course its fate could not be known for an indefinite period, and he knew not how the Nelson . Government -, might , be linked with the good folks of Greymouth. But if Mr Curtis woke some morning, and found the voice of the people had been heard at a higher bar than his—that the South-West Gold Fields were no longer under his control; what would he think? Stranger things have happened, and happen every day, and . even the inhabitants, of the South- West Gold Fields , nlay' demand rights which certainly are their privilege. I am, &0., Maoadamist.