To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, Bth Sept, 1846.
Mr. Editor, —ln your last week's paper, a writer who signs " A Traveller," makes a great bother about some trenches that were dug across the Porirua road. I suppose they,have mnde bridges over by this lime; and if the Traveller rode Shanks' mare, as most people here are obliged to do, there would be no fear of injuring his horse. I think the deep trenches on each side the road are worse than those across it. The road is only ten feet wide, and these trenches are about two feet deep : now, what I want to know is, If two drays meet, how are they to pass each other, without* one getting into the ditch on the side of the road, and perhaps losing a bullock, which to a working man would be a veiy serious loss? Porirua is likely to be a thriving place when the road is open ; and why not make the road fourteen feet wide, so as to allow two drays to pas:;, and as was to be done if the work, had been done by contract ? Your's, &c, A Cartman.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 117, 12 September 1846, Page 2
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197To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, 8th Sept, 1846. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 117, 12 September 1846, Page 2
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