ROADS! ROADS!!
To the Editor of the Marlborough Express. Sir, —Ti e topic of the hour, or I ought rather to say of the Elections —is Hoads, and I would just ask you whether surface-earth is the correct thing for road mending, as exemplified in the Maxwell road? To-day it is a slough of mud with the rain, and when the weather takes up, it will fly away in clouds of dust, for want of a few loads of gravel to weight it down. What public functionary passed this piece of work '' There is another admirable specimen of road mending at Vinegar Point, and the Awatere Saddle. Only a few days ago, and since the contractor professed to have finished it, a dray with two horses and a burthen of 15 cwt. had the greatest difficulty to get over Ic. Surely his Honor will inspect this road, or send some other competent person to do so before be takes it off the contractor’s hands, and in the hope of this I shall now only further add that the benefit which ought to result from the operation is as far as I can see, extremely doubtful indeed.
1 am, &c. ' Vinegar Point Awatere, Oct. 11th.
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Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 199, 16 October 1869, Page 4
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204ROADS! ROADS!! Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 199, 16 October 1869, Page 4
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