PROGRESS VERSUS STAGNATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF MAKAWATU fDBBALD. Sir,— Away back in the. seventies f when your humble scribe arrived en the scene of action here the people . as well as the town seemed to have any amount of go aliead , in. them. To tho now arrival the whole air seemed to indica^*^ jfrfveryihing was booming along Viih TeabV and beunds, wliai ' with ro»4i und
r'unioiirs of roads, railways and rumours of railways, bridges and rumours of bridges, would lead one to think that the then capital of Manawatu was going to play second fiddle only to Wellington, but alas, i^all ended, in nothing. And why ? because our local politicians did not move with the times} or we, should tiot now enjoy our present isolated position : they let the time of pound for pound subsidy go by, the Roads and Bridges Construction Act pass without availing themselves of the advaptages to be derived from it. And as years pass aWay Here We are the vetfj same Way.
Why should we, while we have such a grand opportunity offered to U8 by the Loam to Local Bodies Apt, forde our unfortunate horses to be everlastingly plbughibg through drift-sand roads, when we can have them metalled without an increase of the present rate ? What has beeom* of all the gas at the last Mayoral el.eefcion about borrowing to make roads? has it like all progressive moves in Foxton died a natural death or is it that our local Councillors are not able from the public' platform to explain to the ratepayers the Why and the wherefore that they can and should have metalled roads without increase of rates ? Now Sir, I think the time is opportune as I understand that we are going to have a contest for the mayoral chair. It is time we were Up and doing solflethitig to keej> pace with the district all around us, take example from our Moutoa neighbours, get the money, make the roads and let the coming generation pay for them. It is the worst advertisement you can give a centre to have bad" roads leading to and from it. I may at a future time trouble your columns and I then hope to lay clearly before your readers Why we should and 1 how We can keep in the van of progress. — I am, &c,
Funcheon,
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Manawatu Herald, 20 November 1894, Page 2
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394PROGRESS VERSUS STAGNATION. Manawatu Herald, 20 November 1894, Page 2
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