THAT MUDDY CORNER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1914, Page 3

THAT MUDDY CORNER.

(To the Editor}

Sir, —For years past there has been, every winter, a bog near the Manawatu river on the FoxtonShanuon road. At this corner many a dray lias been stuck, and even broken, and on one occasion a draught horse fell dead in his attempt to pull out' a vehicle. Motorists and cyclists are also put to no end of inconvenience during the weit season. And why is it not metalled? There seems no justifiable answer; for it only extends about one hundred yards

or about one three-hundredth part of the whole of the Fox ton-Shan-Don mail route. And is the council going to "let it np" for another winter. If so, the ratepayers had better form a bee and do the work themselves. Then, why should the people pay the rate*) and mend the roads themselves? At any rate, it, must be done by somebodv. Yours, etc., "H'ATTCPAYET?.