A WORD FOR THE ROADS ENGINEER.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 215, 30 June 1905, Page 2

A WORD FOR THE ROADS ENGINEER.

(to THE EDITOR a) Sib, —Since last I wrote to you the District Engineer (Mr BurJ) has been amongst us on bis round of inspection. He has left a good impressbn on tbe minds of some of the settlers on account of the quantity of work he proposes doing in the district. lam informed that the Taumatatotara road is to be completed to the junction at the Te M&ika road; there are already two gangs actively operating on it with more to follow. There are about a dozanGovernmanv employees on this particular fuad (iEfispendent’ r of cooks and camp foilowets). I know that there is a certain amount of jealousy with regard as to how the money is to be spent in this district; but then, when I call to mind the teaching of my early youth, that God could do everything “ but please the farmer,” I find it very hard to blame mere man for falling where his Creator had to submit to the humiliation of defeat. There is a saying that u a policeman’s I>t is not a happy one.” Well, 1 feel certain that the same applies very forcibly in the case of a Government Engineer or Inspector. They wern’t built for comfort either, as anyone who saw Mr Burd, as he emerged victorious out of the many mud holes, could testify. In spite of the ridicule and ignominy I have often heard heaped on to tbo heads of Government officials in general, I feel convinced that men who go through tbe many hardships to be encountered in a new district at this season of the year have an honest desire for the betterment of the settlers’ position and the district in general. But this, Mr Editor, is only one of the many instances of man’s ingratitude to man. And thus 1 fell to moralising as.Mr Burd smilingly departed covered with mud (not glory) for Marokopa Valley district, accompanied by Mr Barron and Mr Keville, where there are several other gangs employed.—Yours, etc., A STRUGGLER,