FARMING ROADS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 386, 20 July 1889, Page 3

FARMING ROADS.

< Tun piohlem of Tiow best to keep the loach in lcpair in the- country districts, writes our Whangaici coucspondent, is one of the gieatcst inteiest'to the &ettleis, and occupies ! conbiJcitiblc attention; also, the best porfc of matciia'l to u&c,~ where thcio i8 [a choice, , and thp mode di construction. In this inu-t of tho North -there is abundance Of tho "bc-b nicta], as^ fccoiia ol dillercnt degrees' J< of liaulness, slate-rock, and &hingle '-irdnY the 'river, beds, in most cases' easily acco'fesible. - The County Coun-, cil here are about to try tho experiment of f aiming,, pub, Jthe' "njaJn wads for nino months," 'JPl'bhi tjhVlsb. Jaigust next, and invite beivflfef'S'fvcnirpSvtierwho are willing to mxdertake tho duty ot keeping them in repair. ' This is noV perhaps, in this cohritYy', but is a ery^comj-^on-, in p^rts \of the Old Countryf "and is v fferjerally fpr a long < term , (live or^ven years'). |n jjarts of the Continent of Enffepe 'there i& J a'lfcb i practice of planting the sides of tho road "With fruit trees of (<he most- useful ldnd^ which are let with the road, and it would probably answer here, as it is found our rural population aremore Jioucsfc -than -that J 'in" the "congosted dioUicts of the Old Country.- '" A^. tho,,inobt perfect .drainage is required where ' roads have to^ heavy trallic, and as 'manual .labour ib an • iitfporban'fc' part of that;* a man re- , siding along tho line o't ' road to be farniedroufc has advantages, as ho can •at o'nco r aitepd (p water, jtabl.es whovc they -^r€s ' b^corffing ' olioked r \?g>, ~p.nd , repair 'i?ct±.4».fchSfiti buddenly appear, ( and if F , t]ie /pr,0 r ca\W,ifinjsius'ed ij'o-ha-^o snorq^ of mofcal placpc} aljQ^gjtin tho g,ooil -Weather, where it' ib likely to be requited, there is no difficulty l , in keeping the road in order— that is, supposing where the road is constructed to oarry an ordinary ton waggon-load, tihecarteis and others do not put two tons on with tho sumo bieadth of fcire?. Hence the Council hero have- found ib necessary to frame by-laws to picveut them doing &o, as also to pievcnt paities going at lull spued acrobs biidges, — l{ Auckland fciUir, ' July 10.