MANAWAPOU ROAD.

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 15 June 1933, Page 4

MANAWAPOU ROAD.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —When an ordinary citizen 'has little to do in his ordinary vocation he goes home and clears up his back yard. He can always find something that is all the better of being done there. The borough of Hawera seems to be observing this rule and taking, advantage of relief labour to have a general clean up. Not so the county; with regret and sorrow be it said. Last Sunday afternoon, while taking a stroll along Manawapou Road, I noticed that, from the Denbv Road end there are miniature lakes in it; that at the corner where the road past the infant school debouches into it there is a pile of putrifving rubbish that would throw ah official dump into the shade; that at the same corner and on the road past the school gorsc has been allowed to grow and spread riotously; that at the same corner boxthorn has been allowed to spread half-way across the road. Along further, the shells of tar drums and other refuse from tarspreading operations ornament (?) the flanks of the road. I could say more, but quantum sufficit. How the county members allow this kind of thing to continue when plenty of labour is available passes my comprehension.—l am, etc., OBSERVER.