The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1883. ROADS THROUGH PRIVATE LANDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 196, 26 July 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1883. ROADS THROUGH PRIVATE LANDS.

Auono the Government papers issued from Wellington (bin session, we find one intituled an Act to regulate t.he Construction of Roads through Lands. The BiU is a very modest one as Far a* appearance goes* but it is to be hope/* that its diminutiTeness or brevity will not be the means of it being east to the one-tide. Its chief provisions are that —AH roads, streets, or lanei intended as public thoroughfares through private lands m any municipal or c Road- Board Difitriot shall be defined, surveyed, and constructed with the permission and under the supervision of the local authorities. No plan shall be adopted, nor permission to open a road, street or |hbroQghmre be granted, until such time is the oost of forming and metalling the sama has been estimated, $he specifications prepared by a dn.ly-«Pthorized engineer ; nor until the amount required for such putpote hat been deposited with or guaranteed to the local body concerned by the owner of the property desiring such road* Nothing m this Act shall be deemed to interfere with the right owner of private property to make roads intended for his own private use or benefit*!