PUBLIC OPINION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 2, Issue 104, 24 June 1913, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Hunua Loan.

A COLUMN FOR THE PEOPLE This column is " The People's Column." We invite them to express their views on all public questions and matters affecting the district. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions expressed bv our correspondents

| TO THE EDITOR.] Sir, 1 notice thiough the columns ct tha "Pukekche ar.d Waiuku Times" that the recent poll taken to borrow £ISOO for various raad works in the Hunua riding, part of the Opaheke road district, also part of tha Maungatawhiri outlying district, was carried by a large majority. In regard tu the allocation of the loan, I think it wai very badly dene; Ihere are go many small votes for , by-'oads, especially in the Hunua Cistrict, that it teems to me more like buying votes than anything else, beceusa some of the small sums are practically useless towards making the outlet to the main road for which they were intended; ard I think the money would have been hetter spent if the lot had been Epent on the main road, from the concrete bridge at the Papakura end to the Paparimu creamery qt the other end, instead of being scattered all over the district as it is. The £SO allocated for making a bridle track from Paparimu to Maungatawhiri is next door to useless, as it will take at least £250 to make the said track. I doubt very much if the above £SO was in order, because there is no legal road connecting the two districts where this money was allocated for; there has only been a trial grade taken thruugh private propartv, but no rcod has been taken. The Maungatawhiri outlying district should never have been taken into the special raMng area at all, because there is no legal road to connect with the Hunua main road, and wben the settlers do u;e the read they have to trespass through private property to do eo And I think it altogether unfair that they have to pay a special late when they might be stopped any Cay from getting the usa of the road. However, as it is they can only get the use of the rcaJ on horse-back, and all their produce, which is chiefly wool, goss by Clevedon. Now that we will have to pay the special rate it is the County Council's duty to make a read to connect with the Hunua main road at their earliest opportunity.—l am, etc., RATEPAYER.