NORMANBY.

Patea Mail, 23 October 1880, Page 3

NORMANBY.

fFII 0 M 01) U COR It F.Sl’O X DEN T,] Wednesday Evening. On looking over the specifications of the gravelling and metalling to bo done on the Mountain road near Stratford, I find there is included in the ordinary w'ork, the clearing from the road of all logs for half a chain from (lie centre. It has been pointed out to mo that this is for many reasons a very inconvenient course to pursue. In the first place, it is a chain road, and the cll’ect of clearing it thus will be to make fencing on the proper lino impossible, and where it is already fenced, either the logs cannot bo half a chain from the centre, or the fence must go down. At Ibis time of the year very little of the logs will hum, and as they are very heavy in sonic places, it will probably be years before, they are got rid of. Besides which, it is work that might well be let on a separate contract, as there are many busbmen, deferred payment settlers and others, who could well tender for it, but who will not be able to go in for the whole affair, and in all probability the work would be done much cheaper that way. It is rather hard too that the last six miles of the road should have nothing whatever dune on them, while the fifteen miles above that have about 25 per cent, more money spent on them than is at all necessary at the present lime.