CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 32, 30 January 1878, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our correspondence column being ,open V no responsibility can lie accepted m respect to. opinions expressed by correspondents.]

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Allow me to ask through themedium of your paper why the Manawatu Highways Board invite tenders for the formation of roads at a distancefrom Palmerston— in many instances m out of the way places .where there arebat'"few settlers, and consequently a., paucity of rates— and do not clear and form certain roads m the immediate neighbourhood of the town? Jam for instance a settler' on section 421 on the town boundary road. Bates have .beenpaid on my property fop the last four years, but the Board has done nothing towards the formation of this road. I have spent three months' labor upon-it» and have also cleared seven chains of" , bush, so as to make it possible to get to my section, but even with all this X aiii sure that when the winter sets, m X shall h'ot^be able to get to my land. I have cultivated my land prettyextensively, but find it impossible to. get my produce out except by packing; Consequently I feel my/ position ta heone of considerable hardship* and trust that my appeal to the;: Board, m thui making kncwn' my grievance through, the columns of your paper, will have the, effect of moring; that body to>.do» something towards making; my positrons as &.bonajtde settler more conrfartaMfeJ — lam&c, ■ '' ; PaiTZ VON SCHMJTKE^ Tftangitikei . line, , ■■'■£. 26th January,. 1878. ! o :