THE GORE-GORDON COUNTY ROAD.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 42, 30 December 1884, Page 2

THE GORE-GORDON COUNTY ROAD.

*$ TO THE*KDITOR, .she PIK, — Your "suneniig" correspondent has made a serious omission from die catalogue of persons made to mouru the absence of a %ood road over those'loO 3'ards whjch (new table) make the liuk that connects Uore with Gordon. I allude to the numerous body of rising citizens kuown not for wearing the ornnge, or the green, but the blue ribbon. Many of them, who ar« only infants, and most of them are so, have to go over this link on many dark and .rainy nights to shout down Bacchus. Now as most of the County Councillors have as a precautionary measure . at the time of elections taken to " the wearing 61 the blue," I am sure this omission has only to be brought before Messrs MacGibbon ana Shanks and they will immediately have their eyes opened to the pressing necessity of having the nearly i«iacessible hill above shovelled into the slough of despond below— -the north *id-3 banked, and two donkey loads of gravel taken from the river to spread over- it, and tliuu you will have as good a road as evi-n favored Mataura can boast. lam sure ii must have been au excess of modesty and a suggestion that they would be helping themselves that prevented these gentlemen voting the 37s 6d required for the purpose, for does not one of them own a. store and section abutting the road, and the other'ia section on th« other side out of which he gav§ the Presbyterians a right of way, and for which Mr David Dun (now en route for a gol<ien eg%) raised a' paean' that yet echoes through tne jralleriea-' of the church 1

Oh Hercules ! come to our aid, and turn the hearts of these Councillors to send us two navvies, two spades, a dray, and two donkey for a couples of days! — I am, etc.,

One op the Committee ox Grievances, 29th Dec, 1884.