PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1880. ROADS AND TRESPASS.

Patea Mail, 28 September 1880, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1880. ROADS AND TRESPASS.

The now residence which Mr Aitchison is erecting - for Mr Recti, on the North Cliff near the Hospital, will be ready for occupation about the end of October. The house lacks design on the approach side, but the front is imposing-. It is presumed that Mr Reed will want to occupy his house; but how is he to get to it ? There is no road over which a dray can go past the Hospital, The builder has got his timber on the ground by obtaining permission to carry it through Mr Haase’s paddock, but that is a privilege which may be revoked at any time. Another house is to be erected on that cliff for Mr Houghton, but he is not in a hurry to court a difficulty by building on a suburban section which has no proper access to it. Mr Rced’s difficulty is one that must be faced immediately, and as it involves a question of road policy tor the Town Board; we think the public attention should be drawn to it. The Town Board might consider, without favor or bias, whether the time has arrived for carrying a road past the Hospital. The most direct road to the Hospital for public convenience would be the one past the School, that being used nine-tenths more than the road branching from the Mail office. The Board have resolved, on the motion of Mr Milroy, to take steps for levelling this branch road from Dr Croft’s corner to the Hospital; but that resolution says nothing about continuing the road past the Hospital thirty yards to the town boundary. Ought suburban buildings to be encouraged by making that road up to the boundary? Supposing the road to he made as Mr Milroy proposes, giving a straight line from the Central Hotel to the Hospital, does any member of the Board know or expect that a single additional residence will be built along that line in consequence of the proposed levelling ? If not, what is the immediate necessity for spending money in levelling that road, as compared with other urgent works ? That seems to us a fair and impartial test to apply. It is impartial to this extent, that the road which Mr Milroy wants to level before any other work is done would be specially convenient to Mr Houghton, being a direct line from the Mail office to the Hospital; but that expenditure is objectionable, because it would benefit Mr Milroy and Mr Houghton, but nobody else. Instead of levelling that road, the interests of the majority would be served by levelling the short road past the School to the Hospital. The farther necessity of levelling past the Hospital northward to the town boundary is one that this journal cannot advocate, because personal interests are involved. We can point out why it is wanted, and leave Mi Reed to settle his difficulty with the Town Board.