Not Fit For Wellington.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 197, 17 February 1905, Page 2

Not Fit For Wellington.

' with am aßegod tohaeo scueaaSoTlteaeebas of a by-nw aaado by tbe HHetet of Lends by mtag bafkiaka m traatian . Md October,metarivt, mi oertata mmG ted roads ia Hri to tarn S tbe Maneb, to which date Uje aaeas have beefo adjourned Bat B may ba interacting to eoneidsr Ihsritaatiou gnu orally m the nwawhile, r ' - Tbe King CounUy has been Iwgtty acquired by tbe (livinemmt for Mm purposes of settieamt. aM trora time to lime the public ear ban hem treated to much trump A fliuriabiag, gad tbe public eye baa been trawled to the asoibition of large pleas and placards totting forth Hu odvNbtagee of tbe territory as a horns far the' industrious pioneer. O igiaally the Gvvirararai's ntontion war to damp tbe pwnnr I two on hu eactiow and ten him there to find the way oat again, but, ridding to tbe pressure of pobUe sentiment, tbe Department of Lcafr dually admitted Uist it would be ra»oonabls to provide roedi But ill at U dung t> lb J ida th it eettkmns ihou'.d precede r.*diog. and tbe boltotog went on a m le or two .vh?ad rf tbe surveyor, and tbe rred-aiskar fol. lowed a; a leimedy pact. Tha fart that tha road-maker was Idlowirg Five iha settler heart of grace, and be witlod. As a matter of fact, acme <d the raids have actually be n cuertrnctod. probably out of small sub I cribbed from money vote d to tl a tooth Island —it would ba iinpombia to steal anything from grants made to the North. But these r >ad.- am to to available only for n months ia Ha veer. During the wet weather, thatig to say, from tbe beginning of May till tha end of October, the settler is Mt to use them except for pack hot ms, and the pack-borae as an aid of osttlomei t ia about as valuable as Tanner's Ark to our oversea commerce. During ton months named, mys Tom Duaeaate by-laws, bußocks are not to to used rg traction animals, whwb meane, we suppose, that no traction is to be permitted, for if tbe roads are in good order tbe pensive bullock uxll not hmm them, end if they bad, ths gmtlamaa with tbe boras is tbe only party capable of pulling a dray along.-* The proviuon may bo a perfectly proper one from tbe point of view of the road. Tbe engineering authorities caneerned, who are Biehmond Hursthouse and. Tom Burd, era probably the two mast capable men ia the colony for the job, and it may. to taken for granted that they bate done all that it is possible for human akin to do with the material at hand. The country is an exceptionally difficult one to road and the soil foe the moat part is of that character that wo vatoe so highly in old and tried friends—it sticks to yon end will not let you go. But the Lands Department oanot

plead ignorance ol this fact, and whan a road was promised a road should have been made, and not somsthing that answers the purpose of a road for six months of the year and has to ba closed for tbe other six months to peavent its total destruction. Them ie plenty of material available foe anetalUng tbest roads, and ben and tbest a patch of macadam has toon pot down, for the purpose, praaninably, of tantalising the unfortunate pfoosor, and the excuse given for confining eperatiaM to thia wretched petahwnrk syetara ie that no money is aviiliMi Yet wo have a thuasping surptas evayy year, and the Department is sdauye telling ua that m uffcet ia being apaaod to extond atottooMßt