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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 40, 27 February 1878, Page 3

$ .•;■;-; , -'•"•.-. : '- "'". "*"°. '.."'WI; "*S?"*3"PB. ~. Sib,— Please oblige, thp. settlers of FitzVrberfc by inserting, 'ffliisu -.letter,: m, your columpa, „ ;. '..'.,. A.' VV'e- have. no. reads of any deagriptipn, y the. poor.- apology for. opp now-in, course of construct ion. wecannat get, at m consequence V of -deep ;ahd -'nnhridged- creeks, and- gullies .. laying^ bet,w;eeh it .'aqpVmost qfus;. and Wthen, i pur County Co*tß|cil anp!, ."""[ighways. Board attempt to. spejx of- opening the : '■ "Jjne .,' we., aye Qinfortu^^ly). all living op, ; t^hey arq, ia>-mT4.edv,i}i**^e''';p'aplic'''(?rj^ss by a pewpn signing hriri^f "A Settler, on. the Gorge Road ". as^ ;lf they iij-ere. dpipg some m*dtipju»t^icey*?' T >. '• A : .§&&e%6n the Gprge. Road" has one **^p.4'|lpM||s]^,i > oadsip the. province up toThis v,ery TC*ndpw.s, and ajl the luxuries of l'fe.at; hjs dpor, and he welj. knp\fs that tJie road- '" sppkeri of by.eiir public bpcljes wpiild be far more economical andY beneficial; tp the disr. t"rict as a. whole than, the. erection, of a. 'bridge at the Ferry :-; 1 buji'as he has. an eye, to business, he can see. that his, property m particular will not increase, m. value. af- the same "ratio, that if wpuld.if the Gorge road, could} be kept open, and all others; kept ';a)iu^, therefore he -vjjould rob us i of the. means of. taking our little. produce to amar-ket-or. obtaining the common necessaries. Qf l}fe: so. that- the. praperty pi the-settjers oh the i Gorge road- may continue to increase m -t-aliie.' .Heiasks, Wliy, this, sudden change ipimpprtapti puplic. matters ? (of no impprfpnce to him as.he hps a.rpa'i)*.^"!'!. he says '{ Echo answers— ' Vested interests '-of someone on the south bank." He is quitp riglnV - pur..all-iß.v.es i ted ; i]i this banlc^ of the. river.ljnt -fjfjiy did: bp wait fpr,. ttie.-e,ci|piV Com? mon justice has been, loudly procfauinjug tjiese*. last. tw,o years—". Open . up, that fine., country ; the. people harp. put their .mpnpy iptq.it, arid; cannot get in,or,.out."*- •;■■..- itad; if-he. wall' step, into the gravjeyardi he willv sfip, another,, reason. wJby. oi^r locj-jl, hodiea. ar^. boq'pdi to. dp, t^eir,- utmost "n, pppniflg a l rp,ad.i; ; apdithe t .roadun quest ion.ia the only qnejpirciipipd- Hp. will, perhaps,, say, 'vYpi\,qqglifi-to.getyoiir,.rpad!; : Ijhave" "qp;6bjectipp l t6,tjla^. , - l . Npr',Jhav#).wp to -the ' pri3.ge.;; bi-t, hq.bT)ow3 the,. Gtpyernment, are,. -qeit:her I .:> t ble.-n.ov,.wining ta.givp.bpth, tbere- - fore: be say*^" -W,ait> foaihe .road itil". wa get the., bridge;, y^.arexroljv'-nejc, (•hums,' what qdds if ■y.e.dpfge.fcdpwjied in -getting a: bag, - of flpur;tp yyqflr v hpn^e^;iq,crfts^ipg op a, lpg X : -^-W.e.^aTe, -j-c^ ; o ; ' . ; * SB^-tai^-i: Ol?!.- FlT*^Eß"a_ißT,. , .•-*■ "^tpp^ A^iteAp,;