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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 239, 8 October 1874, Page 2

To the Editor op the 'Evening Mail.' Sib, — On receiving the Evening Mail today, I was very pleased to see another letter in favor of the Hope line of road 10 the Bailer. It is a fact that nearly all the traffic goes that way, mostly by dray so far as Newport's, 18 miles from Bait's at tbe mouth of the Hope river, thus causing a saving of three or four days to pack« r s at the present time and in the present state of the roads, and if you take into consideration the cost ot feeding a lot of horses— sometimes as many as fifteen go through in tne drove— the saving of time and money i* grea'. It does seem a piece of folly spending £4 f 00 in opening that line and proving it to be she best in every sense of the word, and then not to finish is, when another £3000 would make it into a reaily good road, gravelled throughout, not a makeshift one. Now, I suppose, we shall have two tracks, and both of them useless. There is another thing to be taken into consideration. It will not be long before there will be communication from Motueka, I then why should the people of VI otucka.takmg I produce to the Buller, be obliged to travel that extra 16 mil s by the Grip, when, by turning up the Motupiko_.they could reach Bait's by the time they got to the Big Bush. Your corrrepondent W. says it will cost £1000 per mile to make the road through the Grip, but say it costs £500 per mile, that will bring it to £2500 for the five miles and it is very certain £500 will rot make the road good through the Bit; B.sh alone, to say nothing about Black Valley and the Buller Plaia* — the later I do not know much about — but the Big Bush I know is a terror. I thought th 1 ? present Government were going in s rongly for economy, but if that is their economy, then I for one say preserve me from economical Governments. It is well known that the Grip road will benefit about four people to the detriment, of the community at large —Yours, &c, C. Orchard. Motueka Val'ey, Oct. 7, 1874. What is the Eadical Beform League about, or do they not take notice of anything outside the town boundary.