CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 234, 13 September 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.) NORTH GISBORNE.—A COMPLAINT. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Some time ago I purchased a section in North Gisborne. It was numbered —, and faces Stout Street, the other end running down to the Taruheru River. It is about five sections from a cross street, and at the time I purchased it there was a road pegged out alongside the section. I find that the road has been now laid off as a section, and is advertised for sale. This will be a great inconvenience to me and others in the vicinity, as we shall have a long way to go round to get into the main street. I think it a great hardship that I should have been led into purchasing the section by seeing the road laid off there, and that now the said road should be closed up.—l am, itc., Section. [Wc have made inquiries into this matter and find that no road was ever intended to be made alongside of the section indicated by our correspondent. We have gone through the plans in the Land Co’s, office to make sure of that fact. When the survey was orginally made there was a peg put in with a little r on it, but the surveyors had no instructions to lay off a road in that position. It will be seen, however, on reference to the plan, that there is only an angular strip of land between the end section and Mr. Gannon’s property adjoining, and putting a road through the strip would simply make the remainder useless. Besides on the plan exhibited at the sale on the 17th January last no road whatever appeared along the side of the section mentioned, neither is there a road shown on the plan deposited in th ' Land Transfer Office. The correspondent was well aware of the absence of a road at the time of taking up the section, some time after the auction when he had sufficient time to consider the matter, with the large plan in the office before him, and a courteous member of the staff to explain the circumstances to him, and therefore it is rather late to feel aggrieved.—Ed.]