MB ROBINSON’S REPORT.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 348, 7 February 1908, Page 2

MB ROBINSON’S REPORT.

(to the editor ) Sir, —I have with some surprise aud consternation read the report of the engineer, Mr Robinson, upon his cooperative brother engineer's work. I have no doubt he thinks it is a tactful covering for*he seemingly sordid state the Roads D p’rtroeut bad got into, nut be has ctea ly proved tbe agitation was sound. He has proved settlors have been plac d iu f west fastnesses; their 8 otioDs Inadod 5< per act ; they have b en there four years, and his remedy to give them a real and an out let, is tbe spending ■ f this loading money the settiers have t» pay accumulated interest upon. He says he would make the roads in tbe patchwork m inner, and deduces from hat it was good engin eri <g, while to be ordinary intelligent man it onb proves the asidins incompstenoy of the m »n who would be so t-xtravagam ly wasteful. No d übt. it is a condition ■>f things entailed upon a public ser van-; (vide a speech given at a farewell to Mr Barron at Te Kuiti) “t - stick to one another”; b it when a man in the position of Mr Robinson has to use irrerp insible tittle-tittle, like M r Langley might give tor his dear friend Mr Burd, hie case must be pre tty rot ‘ ten to begin with, and how Mr Hay | lock could make such a remark as attributed to him is beyond my comprehension, knowing bis previous convictions upon Mr Burds methode, and he like the rest han been without a stock road since he settled here. Fancy a man quoting Mr Langley’s statement of land values “enhanced” when the sei tiers came with the full unders and in ot getting a road apart altoga her from paying interest upon loading money that ia never spent. The En £ineer might have asked why Mr Lang•y oewpied such • MM pMo» ia

Kawhia. Why ffidnt he make a few thousands like the other >«oolde«**. If go there might have beeo a ffiff rent story. Tne tact is the engineer had to make an harmonious report, and it nattered not what authority played th*marie to long as it was io tase, It is little use talking-tbe farmers mu-t vote, there's th»ir remedy But they can rest content, after reading that report, bad and all as we have been irested and seemingly cumbersome meth bods of road construction under Mr Bard, by thunder we might hive beei. worse, and for small m -rcies we must be thankful.—Youys etc.. PETER ROSS.