GLENBERVIE TERRACE CUTTING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5016, 21 April 1877, Page 3

GLENBERVIE TERRACE CUTTING.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW ZEALAND T131E3. ■ Sir, — A letter in your paper of this date rc Glflnbervie cutting is so full of errors that I hbpe you will give me space for the following remarks on it. At the meeting at the Shepherds Arms, at which Messrs. Ramie and Cleland were present, if Mr. Cleland did not speak he hold up his hand to vote. “ Ratepayer” says the surveyor gave some information. As one of a committee the only information I got was to the effect that the surveyor would give no information unless authorised,to do so by the Mayor or Council. “ Ratepayer” says a road through the present cutting would cost double that of the proposed track. In this he is of a different opinion to many other ratepayers, who believe that a road double the width of the one proposed can be put through for the same or less cost. Surely “ Ratepayer” does not think that £1534 will make and keep passable the proposed track, for it is to bo only fifteen feet wide, and the face on one side-will be over seventy feet high, exposed to th’e'sun and wind and rain from the north-west. Would any of the distinguished persons he mentions risk their lives in such a trap ? Certainly it would bo no better than a trap for years, and when the slips do come, as it is only reasonable to suppose they will, who is to clear the way ? for being on the boundary of the city, there might be some trouble in getting either the Karori Road Board or the trustees of the Botanical Gardens to remove obstructions, repair damages to fences, &c., for there is no rateable property beyond the cemetery gate on that side of the road. “Ratepayer” says or implies I own property on each side of the lane. I do not own property on each side of the lane, and only know of two persons that do so. At the public meeting held at Maginity’s, one gentleman said the proposed road

mhdit increase the value of his property a thousand pounds, and yet lie gave clear and substantial reasons for voting against the proposed track. The re-idcuts in the cutting on the Tinakori side have a frontage to a lane 10ft. wide, and on the town side a right-of-way 20ft. wide. Now, the petition with 53 signatures, I was never asked to sign, and some who were asked refused, and one signed not knowing the job he was signing for. I think Mr. Allen’s petition will be more numerously signed, and by bona fide ratepayers. Three-fourths of the ward, according to your correspondent’s letter, arc against the job, awl no wonder at it, if nearly a year’s rate of the whole ward is to be squandered, while actual wants are uegheted. Let the residents, particularly the Councillors of Lambton and Te Aro Wards, visit the site and judge for themselves, and if “ Ratepayer ” should write again on this subject, let him sign a name by which lie is known, so that it may be taken at the full value. —I am, &e., C. 11. Gillespie. Tinakori-road, April 19.