URUTI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81890, 11 December 1906, Page 2

URUTI.

(From Qur Own Correspondent.) A movement is oil foot to get the sports committee in working order and as funds are plentiful, owing to the large bonus last year, we should be able to liold a real first-class meeting for so small a town. I seo by this morning's paper that your Tongaporutu correspondent cannot leave us and tlie roads alono. There is much harping over mudholcs that do not and neyer wiU exist. The part of the road that there is so muck disoussion upon is as sound aud capablo of heavy traffic passing over it as any road in Taranaki. year, because tho Cou&cU did tho work m the autumn und made a mess of it, there was a good deal of justifiable comment, but now, when the work is being done at a proper time of the season, so that it will be set hard by tho winter, there is a good deal of ignorance shown by several writers, to whom 1 would have given credit for having more sense. X suppose it is a ease of give a dog a bad name, etc. It djes not matter what good the Council i may do now, there will always be some- < | one wiio will pick holes in their work. < The sandstoning thai has been done <i round here this spring and summer is * some of tiie best and most substantial 11 road work that has been made, and will be a great benefit during the coming winter.

There is one thing that outsiders who discuss our roads from here to the foot of Mount Messenger do not take into consideration that whenoyer we haye a real heavy downpour part of the foad, owing to the low-lying country, is at once submerged, and I think it will be imposjiblo far the smartest, engineer or County Council to keep this road in anything like order, until it is all raised above flood level, which will entail hundreds of pounds, which the Council at present have not got. One picco of the road, in the front of Mr li. T, Clark s place, which was raised and saudstoned two years ago, was as good as any metal road all through last wintor.

Mr W. J. Claro is pushing on with the bridge repairs, and wo will soon have one new bridge built and the old one in thorough repair. Mr I{. Aroa is managing thp local suiro during his brother's absence in tiie In ew Plymouth Hospital, where, wcl hear, he is doing well and now out ol danger, but is not likely lo be able to return to Uruti this summer. I