CORRESPONDENCE,

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 163, 31 July 1886, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE,

Under no circumstance is the Editor tc.->-ponsible for the matter contained m coirespontience.

(to the rniTOR.) Sir, — I should like, if you will all.nv mo space, to add my protect again* t tlio r.ito proposed to be levied by the I'iako Oouciy Council, and also to sd} a f<nv words on the waste o*H money spon ton the i >ad fn>Le, Kocho's Gully to Brown's honour/. 1 say waste advisedly, for I am biire any uuprejudiced observer going over the mud would regard it as suoh Just this side o£ Mr Brown's boundary aie two deep gullies impassable for horse or dra>\ These are left untouched, and the road, I presume, will go round the head of them on Mr Roches land. Theie is only a small deviation round certainly, but iL' Mr Roche chose to fence, the load would bo blocked. What I contend is that, ii' it h intended to use Mr Roches land tho road need not have been made, as tho old track was better in every waj ; whereas ir it u

Intended to $*tiok to the road line, these guliies will defeat that intention and the Whole expenilit«i:e be useless. I mo&t not toe undoi stood as objecting to the formation of a load to the Gordon Settlement, as I thinK the settled lnivo evciy light u> one, but I do object to money beitur i'nt-t-icd nwtiy doini; no good to them or any one el.-^ except the contractor when that sum of money would 1 live kept the Shafte&bury road in good repair and obviated the lading of a rate. — I am. &<:., W. 11. HanuiEb.