THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1908. OUR WINTER ROADS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 76, 3 April 1908, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1908. OUR WINTER ROADS.

THE old monotonous story of mud-imprisoned settlers in our out-districts is attain to be told again this coming winter, and the authorities will doubtless express again their sympathy and promise to have matters improved at the earliest possible time. Unfortunately, promises do not metal clay roads, or make lessimpassable the dreadful barrier of mud which effectually bars communicatigu between our outdistricts and the railway. li is said that a district gets what it deserves, but. according to Ministerial creed, in New Zealand the district with the most powerful voice is considered the most deserving. It is not to be expected that the Government can immediately fill all claims made upon it by a new and rapidly expanding locality, but, in reiterating the claims for metal on our main roads, the settlers are amply justified. By no stretch of imagination or financial juggbng is it possible for settlers to raise the money necessary to make the main thoroughfares passable, and in advancing the claim that main arterial roads form portion of the national work, they are obviously right. A promise has been made of a stone-crushing plan! for the main roads of the district, and it is to be hoped no effort will be spared to have such promise fulfilled. The genera! election will doubtless firing with it the usual crop of political promises. The outstanding requirement of the King Country is roads —not clay tracks, but good permanent means of communication —and it is to be hoped when promises are in the air, the watchword of the electors will be "Roads."