THE BULLER ROAD.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 39, 9 July 1877, Page 2

THE BULLER ROAD.

— " Sworn to no master, of no oect am I." — [to the editoe inangahua times.] Sib, — It is with great reluctance that I write to you en this subject, but I hope you will insert this for the benefit of whom it may concern. I saw in the paper last week that Mr Job Lines' four horse coach came through from Westport to tbe Junction — so it did, but it was an empty coach 3 but of course others, taking advantage, no doubt, of Lines having come through thought the road was clear enough for traffic, so starts our old, friend Mr Cereceto for a trial trip witjh a load of bids, from lieefton. Ie appears he got along very weil till he came to the road between Christy's and Keuben Waite's, where he was bogged a considerable time. However, he managed tq get out of that, and after having a wet at old Eeuben's, he started again. Gqess ray surprise at the sight of him again in, the]evening (when I was panning, '.the aVst loaded dray passed though here to-day for Westpor I , '). I may as w.elj tell you he had got bogged agnyi, imd in tho very place where the old gentleman was to pass safely on one of the cuddy kind (so. say* Mr Courtney). lam thjnk' ing that if lie were to pass o n a camel the people would think him a q-toor icind of dromedary with tho big hump behind. Mr Cox arrived here to-day from West- ; port with a loacled, dray. He has three very good, horses ; but has met with difficulties, aud just about the same place that -Mr Cereceto was bogged he had to unload a good deal of his freight. Now all this happens seemingly in the one district. lam told, that the place where i Mr Cox got bogged was actually made up ■by stakes being driven in and then filled up with brush and covered with stones, instead of being cut in the solid according to specifications. According to Mr Cox's words—" I thought I was gone altogether •' — it is a very dangerous place on account of its close proximity to the river. Now, Mr Editor, had the conditions of the specifications been carried out, this mishap would not have occurred to Mr Cerecelo or Mr. Cox. The specifications again state that on the whole of this contract at the expiration of the term the road shall be covered with six inches of gravel, no stone but will pass through a 2,-nch ring to be left on the road, but not a chain of gravel has been put on it ; yet this wurk has been passed— l mean No, 5- section of last year, and on which the mishap oocurred. Let us hope that there will be a different arrangement this year, and that soon, so that we may have through traffic, and, that there may be some one appointed under the. new regime to see that contracts are carried out according to specifications. I am, &c, Old Identity. P.S. — I hear that the "moa bones" found over the hill have turned out to be the bones of a calf belonging to Christy, which had been washed, into the care and died. — 0.1. Inangahua Junction, sth July, 1877.