MOUNTAIN ROAD.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 277, 8 December 1877, Page 2

MOUNTAIN ROAD.

(To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sir, —In the Taranaki Herald of the 29th ultimo, I have noticed a letter dated Ketemarae, 23rd November, 1877, and signed

A.B C. on the .subject of the conslructio and advancement of the Mountain Road* Th -writer strongly and reasonably urges the necessity of the road being made available for traffic daring the present summer so that another winter may not be allowed to pass without its being opened, so that vehicles of all descriptions may travel it without difficulty, and says truly, that the postal communication would be carried through in half the time, anil with a great reduction in the amount of subsidy now paid the contractor. Remarks are also made on the settlements now formed and forming on the line of road —the one at Midhirst, and the other of the Small Farm Association, which is progressing, and the serious injury that the occupants will receive from the want of easy access to their sections of which both in Midhirst and the Small iAirjn, many are taken by people living at a distance, even so great as Wellington and Marton, so that this matter cannot be considered as one of purely local interest, as might at first appear. The writer says that these subjects are obvious at a glance,” and that I think all those who take any interest in thedistrict, whether as residents or otherwise, will cordially agree to. I have roughly recapitulate! the substance of the letter, so that any of your readers who maj' not have seen it, may understand its general tenor; but I must now' trouble you with an observation or two of my own. The writer concludes by asking why it ■ is that the sum of £6,000 that was placed on the estimates last year was not exponde as voted, and, if so, (to use his own words*, £ “ where and with whom does the fault Is it with our representative or with whom ?” It strikes me, sir, that the writer has, either to spare himself a little trouble, after, as I consider, putting all the more prominent points of the subject before us, never enquired who the individual was who placed the sum named on the estimates, or owing to his modesty, declined to saddle the right horse, and with a pleasing diffidcncc, instead of at once stating the fact, begs to be informed on that point by your contemporary of the Taranaki Herald. Why has he hinted at the person who is responsible for all the delay and annoyance that has taken place, or tried to throw on the shoulders of some other person the onus that should rest and rest alone on the shoulders of Major Atkinson—the representative of the district, ami to whose cave the furtherance of this most important object was conlided. In a letter that appeared in the Patea Mail, dated Wellington, 13th November, 1877, from Major Atkinson to C. E. Gibson, Esq., of Normanby, chairman of a meeting held to urge on the completion of the Mountain Road, and the resolutions of which were forwarded to the former, by the last named gentleman, his reply is (in brief) as follows—That the greatest interest is taken by him in the subject, and that he has been steadily working in that direction. That he proposed to place £3,000 on the supplementary estimate this year, to obtain £6,000 under the ‘Sartoris Downes and others Bill,’ and to make np the balance from the Taranaki Land Purchase Fund.” lie continues. “ The Government have placed £3.000 upon the supplementary estimates, but have, declined to go on with the ‘ Sartoris&cßill’andhavcnot, Ibdieve, yet given any consideration to the way in which they will dispose of the balance of the Land Purchase Fund.”

Now, sir, what do we hoar of the £G,OOO. Why did not the Major when he was in power, and when lie had the ball at his foot, keep faith with his constituents and press the matter on when he really was in a position to carry out his views? He professes to take the greatest interest in the matter, but how sad it is to think that he should, by adverse circumstances, be unable, by Ins own shewing, to carry out what he had so much at-heart. The public would, I think, rather sec the principal than hear of the interest.

In conclusion it may be truly stated that the interests of the district have been neglected—that when in power Major Atkinson did not embrace the opportunity to serve his constituents and the public, and that now, when that power is gone and hardly likely to return, he talks of urging a Government, that by bis own intemperance and craving after ofiice be has made his bitter enemy, to carry out bis neglected duty.—l am, &c., OBSERVER.

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